Being a Celebrity

Alienation, Integrity, and the Uncanny

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21876367
AutoresAlex Archer (0000-0001-9398-6427), Catherine M Robb (0000-0002-9249-1024)
Año2023
Volumen9
Número4
Páginas597-615
Fecha de publicación2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/apa.2022.28
OpenAlexW4308485260
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas24

A central feature of being a celebrity is experiencing a divide between one's public image and private life. By appealing to the phenomenology of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, we analyze this experience as paradoxically involving both a disconnection and alienation from one's public persona and a sense of close connection with it. This ‘uncanny’ experience presents a psychological conflict for celebrities: they may have a public persona they feel alienated from and that is at the same time closely connected to them and shapes many of their personal interactions. We offer three ways in which a celebrity might approach this conflict: (i) eradicating the divide between their public and private selves, (ii) splitting or separating their private and public selves, or (iii) embracing the arising tension. We argue that it is only this third approach that successfully mitigates the negative effects of the alienation felt by many celebrities

Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Disconnection · Epistemology · Humanities · Persona · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Uncanny · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology