More specifically concerning: contrast
self-as-character
Thomas Patch, self portrait (late 1760s) In our society the character one performs and one’s self are somewhat equated, and this self-as-character is usually seen as something housed in the body of its possessor, especially the upper parts thereof, being a nodule, somehow, in the psychobiology of personality.[….] In analysing the self, then, we are […]
Crambe repetita (48)
Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life