ext_175055 ([identity profile] syna.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] multiplicity_archives 2005-08-11 03:54 am (UTC)

Re: Part One

Oh, I can completely understand that. I don't blame the multiple reaction to that at all; if being an element of a single identity is inaccurate, it's natural to want to distance yourself from that.

Though I'm also not sure if an original person, providing there is one, is necessarily less created-- in a sense, everyone, even single people, creates themselves.

I totally agree. All of this ties into this value judgment people tend to put on created things, as if they're somehow 'less real', which really annoys me.

I thought about medians after I'd posted that, and really that does go a ways toward explaining what I meant. Though honestly, I'm wary about using it because although it comes close, it doesn't quite hit the nail on the head, for me. The closest thing I've heard that describes my own experience is 'personification' as discussed by some Jungians.

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