The power of the self
beyond selfies
This serie is based on the lecture of Herman Hesse 's Steppenwolf (1927) which underlined beautifully how multiple a living being is.
We normally share one selfie at a time — it could be on a daily basis but still, it remains uncommon to have them organized in a serie, and therefore, it's difficult to be able to compare all the different personalities they show from a unique person.
On te contrary, we stipulate that each selfie is showing the same person, or, to some extant, the same gesture of arrogance and self appreciation in different human being.
But, since we need a whole universe of facets (or sides) to be ONE, and it's to fool ourself to think that we are the result of maximum two natures (the devil inside and the good in the Reason, the bourgeois and the wild animal, the artist and the scientist, the urban person and the country personality, the savage in society and the docile in love, the dandy and the bohemia...). We don't have a wolf inside fighting with conventions or civilities, we are not based on a simple duality such as many of us seem to describe themselves ; instead of this we have this whole universe composing each of our gesture, each of our decision, each of our emotions.
And, ironically, the selfie, which is showing one person in one (chosen and calculated) moment, once "serialized", appeared to me to be a good way to illustrate my understanding of Hesse's book : the necessary plurality of the self.
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Similarities
same place, same person, similar poses, but still two selves
According to Herman Hesse, even the wolf can't be reduced to it's animality because even he is a multiple construction. This matter may concern every living things.
Thereby, in order to conclude this approach, maybe we can discuss the fact that if we all are the same whole universe, therefore a person is the result of one unique mixture of all the components (according to his/her/they own social traits). And, if we all are experiencing the same world (at different degrees), it appears senseless to dissociate ourselves from an other human being based on mere details as tastes, nationalities, age or gender ...
