The delusion of a 'true' self

Psychologies are complex, individual things, and there’s no part of the brain, and no aspect of our personality, that stands out as being the seat of the true self, so we’re never going to discover a universally valid answer. “As a scientific concept, the idea of a ‘true self’ is not tenable,” says Nina Strohminger of Yale University.

What is exciting once you have accepted that there is no homunculus (little man/woman) in there pulling the levers is the Foucaldian notion - 

Michel Foucault remaking of self

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