But the ideal self I strive for may or may not be my own. If it is not, then
the closer I come to attaining it, the farther I will be from myself. The more
closely I mold my body to the image in the poster, the less I see myself in it.
After all, I am molding my body after the image of another, and I may be
doing so in order to attain the admiration of others. But the admiration of
others I attain will really be for another, the other of an alien image.