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The stories I have told about myself my whole life are based on certain material aspects that my narrative self depended on.
It's the young people who steal the book: Alex, lusting after both Melissa and her mother, despising his father and locking horns with alpha male Richard; Daisy seeking meaning in the mess around her, earnestly trying to be good; and selfish Melissa, whose sense of self "depended so much on other people being in the wrong".
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The eternal principles on which our sense of self depends.
And, of course, the way in which class can demand you erase your geographical self, depending on which class you're in.
One favorite is "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," by ZZ Packer, toggling between the stories "Brownies" and "The Ant of the Self," depending on my mood.
It is argued that the self depends for its ability to recognise itself primarily on collisions that suspend the flow of spatialised complexity.
Legends about the Hindu gods, like the myths of the Olympians, permutate multiplying selves, gender switches and phantom likenesses: transformations of the self depend on an idea of souls migrating from one shape or species to another.
This raises the obvious question: if your entire sense of self depends on seeing your own gender represented in the stories you love, how fragile must your masculinity be?
On that on thine own self depend.
In short, the self depends on its environment for its survival, and must secure its materials through forays into the world.
Soloman states, "The self depends upon what we think of ourselves but we need some substance to think about as well as a mind to think with".
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