Self-Portraiture: The Art of Self-Research

"...The subject looking in the mirror is ego. Opposite ego is the self, whose thinking has a different rhythm and order. The initial ‘mirror encounter’ ego observes passively and the encounter offers an opening for ego to use its cognitive understanding, to make decisions and act. Ego observing the image in the mirror illustrates the expression that the ego looks into the depth of the soul. Ego looks at the true self, which resides in the soul, in the head or in the person’s personality. Th...