"The Ego and His Own" oil on wood, 32x36(2023)

Serie: "Screamers / no:1"

"The Ego and His Own" is the best known work of Max Stirner who was a simple Philosophy Teacher in a unimportant conservative highschool. He wrote this major book in these years, he had a regular life, he was not social, he had a modest look, when you look at him, nothing was special about him. When his work published everyone was in shock, it was completely crazy, the lust in this book did not match with this quiet man even this book caused Striner to be fired. "The Ego and His Own" is about the absolute lonileness of individiual. In view of Strinner, Ego which means the ourself, was totally alone, this world was all what happens for or in him. He was screaming an unseen idea which will be called as individualist anarchism. He was not just rejecting the system in where he was living, he was rejecting the idea of anything outside of him. The ego was not insert to any term or constitution, everything was insert to ego. So with this idea he reached an absolute own which determine, design, expose everything. The self was capable to do all and a community with egoists who purify their minds from unrational wills and mythical aims was a best idea to live in. Any rule could not limit this ego. But in Stirner's genuis was reaching to nihilism. The ego or self was consuming his self permanently, so actually there was no ego, it was appearing and disappearing, it was bravely nothing. So there was no rule or anything was upon for this self, and our worlds was for ourselves. But there was also one thing, ourselves were nothing, there was no myself, it was just a consciousness which consume itself unstopping. So everything was depends to myself and myself was nothing. In that case, while ı can not catch, define, expose, explain, name myself, what can ı call myself other than a "thing". The last phrase of his book was screaming the inevitability of human destiny:
"Ich hab’ mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt.(I drop myself(my thing) to nothing.)"