ext_122761 ([identity profile] j4.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lnr 2004-04-13 04:33 pm (UTC)

I think there's a big difference between photos of yourself (that's you-in-general-rself) and photos of other people. We only ever experience other people's bodily existence externally (no matter how intimate we get with them, we can't experience existing-in-their-body) so we don't get the cognitive dissonance between internal and external experience; whereas looking at yourself-seen-from-the-outside there's a moment of dissonance between this-is-how-I-experience-my-existence-internally and christ-do-I-really-look-like-that? If you see what I mean.

I don't like many photos of me, anyway.

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