Abstract:
This paper discusses the phenomenon of adolescent exhibition in social media. We started by questioning the weakening of the parental Other and the impasses arising from the advances of virtuality in contemporary times. We rescue the debate about narcissism in adolescence, presenting the “offer of oneself to the gaze” and the “exhibition” as distinct mechanisms in relation to the Other’s look in the culture. According to Lacan’s propositions about the moment of seeing, as well as the eye and gaze’s “schize”, the research concludes that viewing is a dominant operation within the act of exhibiting, which leads to repetition and not stabilization of adolescents in the field of the Other.
Keywords:
adolescence; image culture; gaze; exhibition; virtuality