ИСТИНА

The problem of retaining the unity of self-consciousness I temporal and spatial continuity is considered. That is, how is continual unity of oneself possible? Self-consciousness is rooted in temporality, plasticity, and changeability, yet always belonging to the same self or oneself. Modernity provides with various technologies for self-identification increasing self-awareness, including in psychology classification of personality types, or in pseudo-scientific discourse horoscope reading and astrology. Sometimes not much can fit in their schema and then sometimes almost anything can. Often misunderstood they are equated with self-consciousness. These are two different concepts: self-identification and self-consciousness. One is a procedure, the other a process and does not lend itself to a pattern. Given that self-consciousness is not a thing or procedure, the question remains as to how a person is able to collect different images of him or herself and not become dissolved in them. This presentation proposes an answer.