The Discovery of Individuality. A Short History of Human Personal Identity

In Collected Lectures of MoMo Berlin. Berlin: xenomoi Verlag. pp. 2015-11-16 (2015)
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Abstract

Human individuality is something that is taken for granted in our time. In fact, it has arisen anthropologically over long periods of time. Man is originally a collective being who has no identity outside of his collective - not least because nobody asks him about it. The text provides a) a psychoanalytically inspired hypothesis as to how an idea of the ego as an individual could actually come about and b) a subsequent, further hypothesis that this idea of the individual has radically changed with the onset of the modern age.

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