Feţele self-ului în oglinda publică
Aspects of the self in the public mirror

Summary/Abstract: The study addresses the issue of the self-definition of the individual in public life from a legal point of view, as a right to one own’s image, part of the right to private life. The current meaning of “private life” goes beyond the initial limits drawn by family life or respect for home or correspondence and has expanded to include the person’s body, emotions and any other personal characteristics that reach public life without consent or distorted. To this are added the private characteristics disclosed publicly by individuals attempting to create a public identity. The study discusses: the self as otherness, the alien that redefines and reconstructs identities at both individual and community level; the virtual self, and the new issue of the removal of the “digital past” ; the commercialized body and the conflict between multiple “self images”; the altered body, e.g. transsexuality, as a psychological feeling of belonging to the opposite gender; the body as a (re)construction and the issue of the “dictatorship” of image; the self as freedom versus the fragmentation of the person into little pieces that cannot be remolded into the real image.

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