Duality between true identity and the mask presented to the world, as well as the psychological and emotional reasons that may lead an individual to adopt this mask as a means of protection or psychological survival.
Different ways in which a person chooses to represent themselves, navigating between inner truth and external image.
It is not an “is,” but a “I am”: so mysterious that it has taken on the neutral mask of the “is” in order to become perceptible or pronounceable. Perhaps to avoid being annihilated by despair.
Lacan, J. (1953)
The Technical Writings of Freud. Siglo XXI Publishing.
Behind a mask, there is much more.
The body expresses maps of the world through the layers of its memory.
Emotional cartographies in constant transformation, existing only within the contemporaneity of each individual, shaped by personal experiences.
“The mirrors that surround us show us our reality, but it is through the eyes of others that we truly see ourselves.”
Existence unfolds as a collection of strange fragments.