ABSTRACT
Following the results of a project on “Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Societies”, in which consequences and paradoxes of the contemporary optimisation and perfecting challenges were researched in regards of the interaction between individual biographical dispositions and motives, this chapter explores in which ways logics of measurements in a lifestyle aiming at constant self-optimisation are expressed and how they can function as coping and defence mechanisms. Psychic and social dynamics of self-measurement as an optimisation form are exemplified on the basis of a young man’s case, who as a highly ambitious and enthusiastic “self-tracker”, includes himself with the quantified self-movement.
