Identity
Posted: Sun 29 September, 2013 Filed under: Introspective, Thoughts, Weirdness, Writing 1 Comment »At the moment I’m thinking a lot about identity – it’s primarily related to an idea I’ve got for a writing project, but it’s just a process that keeps bouncing round my head. Are we really who we think we are? And if not, which is the true identity? The one we live, the one we think we live, or the one we dream of being?
As an example, I’m pretty sure of who I am, but other people see a different person to the one I see. They see personality traits – good and bad – in me that I don’t see in myself. So which is true? Or are both true?
There’s probably more to be written on this, I’m just bouncing things round in my head, seeing what shakes out in the long run.
There is a huge literature on the psychology of identity – a Google Scholar search will point you in the right direction.
If you have a way of reading LocoScript discs, I wrote 25,000 words on te subject in 1988…