Looking at (pun accepted) the selfie as a product, and a tool, in our society is a good way to better understand how ego-overidentification and solidification works.

This is because the selfie assumes that, through a photographic image of one’s external layers of flesh and hair, the visible projection of one’s fat, muscles, and skeletal configuration, one’s cosmetic and other physical modifications, and so forth, paired with the context of one’s surrounding environment (and the possible personal/ancestral history that a person is born into that can be seen), one can truly be show, or see, the “self.”