| BkI:12.III.7 | Thus arose identification with body and personality. That psychosomatic self, the body and individual mind, would live next to another individual self, yet each isolated from the other: incomplete selves who would seek completion by themselves, seeking from outside what they lacked within—fractions of incomplete selves in search of their completion, so that their belief in separation, which is also a belief in lack, could be justified. That external world would be the living witness that would constantly remind the ego of its separation, autonomy, and cruelty. |