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Originally Posted by Ken G
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.
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If you excised all that happened and all that you did in your life from consideration, are you saying that what would be left over is your raw identity? Is it something that could be bottled and studied in the lab? Injected into someone else?
Because the word "identity" is used as a noun, and nouns often refer to distinct things (like a house or a tree), I think you are looking for a distinct something that is the referent of the term "identity." You even used the term "perceive," as if your identity was something that stood before you in some sense.
I think you may be reifying identity.