This work discusses the idea and construction of the self-portrait. The text is constructed from the questions brought by the production of an image that the author calls self. The development of this thesis seeks to face and clarify these issues, which are: the relationship between the eye of the portrait and the one who sees himself portrayed; the relationship between the portrait and death, and what this relationship provokes in the one who is portrayed; and also: how is it possible to build an image that is, at the same time, the portrayed body and an object out of this body. These subjects are presented and developed in a fine line between fiction and theory. Thus, concepts by authors such as Sigmund Freud, Jean Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes emerge and mix with a fictional narrative that is presented in the form of a performative writing. The fact that this writing was created along with the development of the research about the object has been crucial to the creation process of this work. Images of portraits and other drawings were aggregated to the text in order to provide a greater interaction of the readers with the issues presented here.