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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
It is lived, not manufactured. There are myriad things you do and that happen to you that constitutes having a sense of identity. You answer to "Ken", the people you are in contact with treat you in particular ways, you go to the same job every day fulfilling the same position, you come home to the same family, you file taxes under a particular Social Security number, etc.
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I would say that all of those things come closer to the way
other people construct my identity, and the pressures I feel as a result. The identity
I perceive is not directly related to any of those-- though they may in some sense help feed the process, whatever that process really is. Those are the things that I value and am committed to, so I would not walk away from them, but my
identity would allow me to do so if I was strongly enough compelled.