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Finally, he needs help in acquiring, as a part of his sense of self-identity, a sense of vocation, of being called to something that is greater than himself, which will draw him forth as a participant in the deepest meaning of life. The providing of this kind of relationship to help the individual acquire an indispensable sense of identity is another of love's objectives.
The men who have had the profoundest vision of things Heraclitus, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, ay, and Aristotle himself when he was the thinker and not the critic; not to speak of the great moderns, whether preachers or philosophers have none of them been greatly concerned for consistency of expression, for a mere logical self-identity of doctrine.
The phenomenon of posthypnotic suggestion seems to indicate that this may be the case. But the unconscious is as much a part of one's self-identity as one's conscious. What if, due to a mishap, the roles were reversed? What if Dan's conscious part were to become his unconscious and his unconscious part his conscious?
Therapy often succeeds in restoring pre-amnesiac memories and self-identity. V. The Incorrigible Self Self-identity is not only always-on and all-pervasive but also incorrigible. In other words, no one neither an observer, nor the person himself can "disprove" the existence of his self-identity. Dan's criminal responsibility crucially depends on the answers to these questions.
This wild mono-homo incident, he somewhat cogently told himself from the more than nominal truth that was therein, had merely been a release, a mechanical need to discharge a full load of semen rather than a desire for one of the same gender; and he fervently yearned for the obsequious knee doter to stay where she was for as long as it lasted, not that he would have disturbed her repose if it were not intertwined with his own pleasure as well as a need for a secure sense of self-identity.
This green preserves its self-identity throughout, whereas the event passes and thereby obtains the property of breaking into parts. The green patch has parts. But in talking of the green patch we are speaking of the event in its sole capacity of being for us the situation of green. The green itself is numerically one self-identical entity, without parts because it is without passage.
We, therefore, have to modify our previous conclusions: Having a memory is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for possessing a self-identity. We are back to square one. The poor souls in Oliver Sacks' tome, "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" are unable to create and retain memories. They occupy an eternal present, with no past.
Even Dan's personality traits and cognitive style, which may well be stable, are often influenced by Dan's social setting and by his social interactions. It would seem that having a memory is a necessary but insufficient condition for possessing a self-identity. One often forgets events, names, and other information even if it was conscious at a given time in one's past.
Thus we find here something not all unlike, but mostly still more rigid than, the post-Exilic Jewish religion something doubtless useful for certain times and races, but which could not expand and adapt itself to indefinite varieties of growths and peoples without losing that interior unity and self-identity so essential to all living and powerful religion.
It is impossible, through any ordinary change of fortune, for a normal person to lose his sense of self-identity. As long as that remains exterior conditions can make no vital change, or make him feel greatly different than he felt before. The change from a peasant to a millionaire brings only a moment's surprise, and then readjustment.
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