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Re: Is there another part to that? » alexandra_k

Posted by Dinah on March 28, 2005, at 0:50:07

In reply to Re: Is there another part to that? » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on March 28, 2005, at 0:28:54

Ah, when you move from logic to metaphysics, I think my brain reaches its limits. :)

I think for my own purposes I'll stick with the dummies guide to the self. A self is the area inside the boundary where I end and not-I begins. Soooo, let's see. Some of the boundary tension is provided by not-I's, and the rest is provided by myself deciding what is I and what isn't.

But that doesn't account for the disavowal of what is actually part of me but that I don't wish to claim. That's where I always get stuck.

In my very humble opinion, because this is a difficult thing to grasp, role playing ought to be thrown out as a genuine part of the definition of a self. But disavowal is an almost insurmountable hurdle to overcome. Because how can you ever really know for sure? No matter what? So alters *could* be mutually disavowed fragments of the self. How could you ever prove they weren't?

(I'm having a bit of fun applying my idea of the self to narcissism though.)

 

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