The digital display case of being

Contemporary clinical practice confronts us with a new paradigm: the subject who has transformed their life into a continuous spectacle. We no longer encounter the former patient who hides their secrets under layers of repression, but one who compulsively exposes every facet of their existence. The act of living has merged with the act of showing, creating a new form of existence where experience isn't complete until it's shared, documented, and validated by the digital gaze.

Each meal becomes a carefully composed photograph, each thought an immediate post, each emotion a status update. This new subject has turned social networks into a public confessional where absolution comes in the form of "likes" and comments. Intimacy has been replaced by calculated exhibition, where every private moment transforms into content for an invisible but omnipresent audience.

The central paradox of this new subjectivity lies in its total dependence on the gaze of others. The individual exists only insofar as they are seen, recognized, and validated by others. Their sense of being is so intertwined with their audience's response that undocumented moments begin to feel like existential voids. The question "who am I?" has transformed into "how do they see me?", and the answer is always pending the next screen refresh.