Self Alienation (Who The Fuck Am I?)
Status
Year of Completion
Material
Completed
2023
Pencil on paper
If therapy is a process of ‘finding oneself’, it follows that the old self must be lost as a part of that process.
The process of dissecting / splitting / breaking down the false self is full of risks. In fact, it can be fatal.
One outcome of beginning to break down the false self is - what is left behind? Who, actually, am I?
I've lived within this false self for so, so long, so many years. I've worn this costume for so long, I can't remember, I don't know, who the real me is.
“Self-alienation - Being an alien (unknown) to oneself”
A consequence of dismantling my false self, of realising that I've been living a life for other people, a life that doesn't belong to me, is being left a complete absence of the sense of self;
Who am I?
What do I want out of my life?
What do I stand for?
What are my beliefs?
What are my morals?
What am I made for?
