Narcissus. A psychological exploration of the myth.

“The past of every form and way of life, of cultures that formerly lay right next to or top of each other, now flows into “modern souls”; our drives now run back everywhere; we ourselves are kind of chaos.” Beyond Good and Evil_ Nietzsche "Become what you are by learning who you are" Pindar. This project represents, through the classic myth of Narcissus, the struggle of the individual towards the fundamental knowledge of his/her existence, the base and the vital psychic engine and the dangers of the essential search. The project has been created with the aim of enabling three different readings. 1. The myth of Narcissus as a metaphor for the search for inner individual knowledge. 2. Narcissism as a human psychological basis. 3. The pathology of narcissistic disorder and internal suffering. The classic myth of Narcissus represented in traditional arts, depict a character from an external perspective, which maintains distance from the viewer. Narcissus is a metaphor for certain shared aspects of human experience. The present project aims to show these shared similarities, for this, the new Narcissus begins his journey from the traditional representation towards a psychological immersion in the different phases of struggle, suffering and possible personal self-transformation, deductible from the classic myth and the different contemporary psychological theories. A compendium of ideas combined with several possible exegeses. The tradition and the experimentation of past cultures, still continue to live in us, according to Nietzsche, and thus the collective past, as layers that form the individual psyche, erects the new human reflection. The underwater images represent a tripartite internal psychological process with its different readings that establish a dialogue between traditional knowledge and modern scientific theories. There is in this work, once again, a general interest in the cultural tradition, which continues to evoke and guide new knowledge and important interpretations of our struggles and contemporary realities. The Wole Text: https://beatrizglezsa.com/project-statements-textos-conceptuales/ Project: https://beatrizglezsa.com/narcissus/