Identity, Community, and the Messes We Make: An Exploratory Series

A Brief Introduction & Table of Contents

This series started as an idea for a brief and relatively easy article I could put out for my goal of posting an article of some sort at least once a week. Well, it didn’t take long before I was stumbling into one rabbit hole after another. Now, weeks later the first of at least four articles in the series is ready to go.

"Self-Portrait of Imaginary Me with Imaginary Thinker" -- Photo of Artwork on wavy mirror, Venice, Italy, 2014.

The expanded version of this initial idea include explorations of (a) the nature and dynamics of identity, including Western and Eastern ideas of ego; (b) how contexts affect identity; (c) how learning and education affect the rigidity or flexibility of identity; (d) how identity influences and is influenced by relationships, groups, and communities; (e) how identity is a major factor in the fractures, double binds, and schismogenesis (or splitting apart) in social, political, and other contexts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1 — Who Am I? Contexts and Identity
Part 2 — Learning and the Rigidity and Flexibility of Identity
Part 3 — Identity in Relationships, Groups, and Communities
Part 4 — Identity and the Fractures, Double Binds, and Schismogenesis in Social and Political Contexts


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