Identity is relative. Far from an expression of oneself, it is largely a performance for others, a pantomime in the limelight of another’s gaze. We have no self-concept except the one reflected in the imagined eyes of others. We can’t be someone without someone to be someone for.
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Oh OK. I'm talking about identity as a category you or others put yourself in whereas you are talking about it as realisation of the self?
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Yep, exactly.
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