The look and the word in the construction of the conscience of himself.
The understanding the individual has of himself comes from the look and the word of the other. Each one of us occupies a determined space and from this unique place we reveal our way of seeing the other and the physical world that involves us. At this point of the analysis, the emphasis lies on the place occupied by the look and the word in the constitution of the sense we give to our experience to be in the world.
By observing the social interactions and the expressions that come about on daily life, we realize out absolute necessity of the other. Our individuality would not exist if the other didn´t create it. The internal territory of each one is not sovereign, as well explicited by Mikhail Bakhtin ( 1985) because "to be" means "to be for the other", and "through the other, to be yourself". It is through the other look that I communicate with my inner side. Everything related to me, comes to my conscience through the other look and word, it means, my conscience awareness happens from the interaction with the conscience of the other. Bakhtin uses the concept of "exotopia" to explain that it is only through somebody else's look that is possible to have a temporary finishing of myself as a whole. The other can have a vision about me that is inaccessible to me according to my point of of view. "Exotopia" is this adding look the other can give at determined moment, a temporary finishing.
Approaching the concepts of "exotopia" and dialogism, that is, the special experience of the look with the experience of the language, Bakhtin will say, the same way my sight needs the other so that I can complete myself, my word needs the other to have a meaning.
At the first moment we can realize that the visibility of the subject in relation to his space in the world and his self-awareness in relation to himself is determined by the other´s looks and language. A certain person, from his point of view can mediate, by his look something in me that cannot be seen by myself. So, the construction of self-awareness is the way we share our look with the other´s look., creating this way a language that allows us to decipher at the same time our self-awareness and the other´s in a socio-cultural context. This alteritarian dimension lived by the subject in the social interaction context serves as a mirror of what is hidden in me, and it is only revealed to me by the relationship with the other. In this perspective, the other occupies the place of the revelation of what is unknown to me.
Let us see now a reflection of what leads us to the experience with the camera, as a means to expand the field of our perception, transforming our experiences because of knowledge and language.
The understanding the individual has of himself comes from the look and the word of the other. Each one of us occupies a determined space and from this unique place we reveal our way of seeing the other and the physical world that involves us. At this point of the analysis, the emphasis lies on the place occupied by the look and the word in the constitution of the sense we give to our experience to be in the world.
By observing the social interactions and the expressions that come about on daily life, we realize out absolute necessity of the other. Our individuality would not exist if the other didn´t create it. The internal territory of each one is not sovereign, as well explicited by Mikhail Bakhtin ( 1985) because "to be" means "to be for the other", and "through the other, to be yourself". It is through the other look that I communicate with my inner side. Everything related to me, comes to my conscience through the other look and word, it means, my conscience awareness happens from the interaction with the conscience of the other. Bakhtin uses the concept of "exotopia" to explain that it is only through somebody else's look that is possible to have a temporary finishing of myself as a whole. The other can have a vision about me that is inaccessible to me according to my point of of view. "Exotopia" is this adding look the other can give at determined moment, a temporary finishing.
Approaching the concepts of "exotopia" and dialogism, that is, the special experience of the look with the experience of the language, Bakhtin will say, the same way my sight needs the other so that I can complete myself, my word needs the other to have a meaning.
At the first moment we can realize that the visibility of the subject in relation to his space in the world and his self-awareness in relation to himself is determined by the other´s looks and language. A certain person, from his point of view can mediate, by his look something in me that cannot be seen by myself. So, the construction of self-awareness is the way we share our look with the other´s look., creating this way a language that allows us to decipher at the same time our self-awareness and the other´s in a socio-cultural context. This alteritarian dimension lived by the subject in the social interaction context serves as a mirror of what is hidden in me, and it is only revealed to me by the relationship with the other. In this perspective, the other occupies the place of the revelation of what is unknown to me.
Let us see now a reflection of what leads us to the experience with the camera, as a means to expand the field of our perception, transforming our experiences because of knowledge and language.
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