[Marsha]
Just for the record, what is the relationship of the word
'individual' to the word 'self'?
[Arlo]
"Individual" is often used to refer to the biologically bounded
organism. An "individual" cat, or an "individual" dolphin. The "human
individual" is defined by this biological boundedness as well.
"Self" is the dialogic "voice" that emerges as the proprietary
experiences of this bounded organism are interwoven into the
assimilated collective consciousness of social interactions. That is,
the "self" is the dialogic-fulcrum point between collective awareness
and proprietary experience.
Thus, "Marsha" as an "individual" refers to the specific biological
being (as I see it), while the "Marsha-self" is a interwoven tapestry
of voices that emerges as that biological being experiences within a
social milieu.
Just my opinion as a commie, Marxist, freedom-hating "academic".
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