Dementia is another way humans lose control of their carefully maintained identities

Evidence

We were in the yard in early spring, the winter’s dog shit having recently melted into a foul dead-grass soup. Mom-Mom, my mother’s mother, was dozing in a lawn chair. By then she was in the haze of advanced Alzheimer’s, another way we humans lose control over our carefully tended selves. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Klein is stacking multiple forms of self-loss — the double, the algorithm, dementia — as parallel mechanisms; worth tracking how the device holds across these registers. — connects to: Alzheimer’s produces a new identity rather than merely diminishing a person. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 53; Specific brain lesions produce predictable, shared transformations of identity — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 507; Alzheimer’s patients return to a generic, unowned childhood rather than their own — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1377 (+4 more)