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NarcissismRe.ected in
Self-PortraitPhotos
ByMinSe-hong
which is concentrated on oneself in childhood, fails to shift
towards other people, regressing to oneself again. If libido stays
ReporterofTheory&CritiqueSection
stationary in oneself, the person cannot give attention to other
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people,indulginginhimselfonly.Freudinsistedlibidocannotbe
ontemporary social network services such as facebook
divergent, meaning it can only be directed at oneself or another
and Twitter are inundated with self-portrait photos.
object. An increase in self-love correlates with a decrease
A profile photo in Kakao Talk, a well-known mobile
in object-love which represents mature state of psychology.
messenger program, without any photoshopped effects cannot
Thereforeself-loveshouldbediscarded,Freudinsisted.
be envisaged by a considerable number of students. Koreans
call such a photo ¡°selca.¡± Selca tends to be classified under two
headings. One is a record of people¡¯s everyday lives and the
Narcissismpropagated:CristopherLasch
otheristhepursuitofself-love.JeongJae-seung,theauthorofa
¡°We live in a society containing narcissistic elements. The
collection of scientific essays named ¡°Cross,¡± took notice of the
cultures of the society
sciencephotolibrary
latter. He said, ¡°Selca, which objectifies one¡¯s own self, is the
generate narcissistic
realizationofnarcissismtransformingtheoriginalimageintothe
character continually
most beautiful but not giving an accurate record of daily life.¡±
and the characters of
Fromwhathesaidtheselcacrazemeansnarcissismisprevalent
peoplemakethesociety
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inoursocietyalthoughpeopleappearnottonotice.
more narcissistic,¡± said
Hong Ehwa, the author
of ¡°A Story of Self
Whatnarcissismis:SigmundFreud
Psychology.¡± In fact,
Narcissism is ordinarily translated as self-attachment and the
therehavebeencultures
term was named after Narcissus in Greek mythology. Narcissus
of managing blogs,
fell in love with his own reflection in a spring but he could not
wherepeoplesharetheir
hug or kiss the reflection. In the end, disappointed Narcissus
beautifully modified
starved to death in front of the spring. Therefore narcissism is
self-images. He who
usuallydefinedinclinicalpsychologyasanegativephenomenon.
enjoys managing his
Sigmund Freud also regarded narcissism as psychopathological.
blog such as Facebook
This means the narcissist, driven by repressed rage and self-
and Cyworld takes
hatred escapes into a grandiose self, using other people as
self-portrait pictures.
instruments of gratification, even while craving their love and
It means they are
¡ãA woman objectifies herself though self-
approval. Freud elaborated that libido, a kind of mental energy
continually induced
portraitphoto.
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