PERSONAL IDENTITY AS A DIALECTICAL UNITY OF SELF AND IDENTITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/NPU-VOU.2024.2(93).14Keywords:
personal identity, Selfness, identity, narrative identity, “I-identity”, “Egoidentity”, narrative, characterAbstract
The article is devoted to clarifying the content of the concept of personal identity. In contemporary intellectual discou rse, it has gained incredible popularity, even though it has a high level of ambiguity. This situation, as shown in the paper, was a natu ral result of the uncritical attitude of researchers to the historically formed semantic dualism of the concept of identity, which is considered either as an equivalence or as a Selfness. In fact, personal identity is the result of the dialectical unity of equivalence and Selfness, and manifests itself as a story about myself, which, on the one hand, allows me to become a character in the story and thus acquire new value orientations for myself and at the same time define my existence through me as the Other, and on the other hand, thanks to the integrity of the story about the fragmentary events of my life, ensu res the continuity of my identity without implying its immutability. In other words, personal identity is a narrative identity that is formed and manifested in a narrative, with the help of which a person tries to balance between identity and self, between the external and the internal, between the individual and the social.
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