Wednesday, November 4, 2009

I have a great deal of trouble writing about psychoanalysis, because so much of it to me seems as though it were made up in a dream, placed on top of reality. Sexism is such an integral part of Freud's theories that I have trouble dissecting parts that can hold up without it. That said, one fragment that was interesting to me in the Wegenstein involves the alienation that occurs when we see ourselves in a mirror in a photo framed by someone else’s gaze. This seems to me an accurate perception of a kind of alienation and projection onto the body that is particularly prevalent in mass media. This could relate quite easily to Jack Berger’s theories in his book Ways of Seeing, in which self satisfaction is stolen from oneself through the image of the body with a piece of merchandise and offered back for the price of the item for sale. The Persona also deals with the way in which we project onto the body or onto an actor while watching a film.

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