(ENG) Harmony of Identity

Harmony of Identity
by Giovanna Castillejos, translated by sam smiley
gio.giocastillejos (at) hotmail.com

One synonym of self-identification is memory, that which remains after taking stock of forgetfulness.

Based on this idea, identity is made up of anything recognized as culturally coded, and suitable for any human being as their own.

Therefore, there would not be limits to consider identity as the sum of everything, including expressions such as:  signs, languages , alphabets, forms of organization, practices such as yoga, music, food, historical events as the Inquisition, the Holocaust, the beauty of all the arts, the internet, to name a few things.

I have the feeling that the genetic discourse is like a particular notion of selection which fits into an "a priori" concept. And if this concept is the concept of identity, any quest would be limited to exclusion.

This does not feel entirely wrong and I even suggested a concept introduced by Jung's collective unconscious. Bringing it to the line of thought that I am addressing, this is adjusted as follows:

The supposed characteristics that shape identity are perceptible insofar as they are connected by a multiplicity of realities. This would make the characteristics of identity changing and ephemeral. That is, not the "form" which is the identity but "against changing form." The concrete is not what defines identity, if not its relationship to the other: the underlying occult.