Not One of Those Girls: An existential-phenomenological exploration of my eyeliner
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https://doi.org/10.65828/7v81cc94Keywords:
Self, other, illness, cosmetics, ritual, being-towards-death, meaninglessnessAbstract
This is a phenomenological exploration of my relationship with eyeliner. I draw parallels between the loss of possibilities in Heidegger's being-towards-death and the cutting off of the possibility of wearing eyeliner through illness. I discuss Sartrean and Kierkegaardian views of the self and how, through illness, self can become Other.
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