Il selfie: pensieri nascosti, fantasie di autocreazione, tratti di personalità

Abstract

Selfie: Hidden Thoughts, Self-creation Fantasy, Personality Traits - Self-portrait photographs can express different aspects of the author’s personality. In particular, selfies magnify difficulties with the brain-body connection, self-creation fantasies and a felt need to remove any mediation involved in the creation of a personal image. The impulse to publish selfies does not stem from a need for real relationships, but rather serves narcissistic self-confirmation. When a person takes and shares a selfie, she avoids mentalisation and does not orient towards her internal world, but instead focuses on self-mirroring the posing person. Selfies not only reveal the variable shades of the author’s narcissism, depending on the typology of the selfie, but can also reveal signs of certain schizoid, dependent, histrionic, avoidant, and sometimes even borderline personality traits.

Keywords

• Selfies
• Narcissism
• Self-representation
• Mind/Body Relationship
• Social Network
• Communication