The Somatic Self Revisited

Abstract

Confusions as to how we use the concepts self, personality, subpersonality, and so on persist. Updating a previous contribution, the notion of identities, as distinct constructions and organizations of the somatic being, is introduced. In this way it is possible to account for the observation that people exhibit, or experience within themselves, varying personalities in differing contexts, and at the same time acknowledge the underlying unity of being of the person.