Identity formation itself is a contradictory resilience, not harmonious maturity

Evidence

These extreme examples concern us all. We are right to assert that the formation of each identity is a kind of resilience, in other words, a kind of contradictory construction, a synthesis of memory and forgetting, of constitution and effacement of forms. In excluding all negativity from their discourse, in chasing away every conflictual consideration on the transition from the neuronal to the mental, certain neuroscientists cannot, most of the time, escape the con- fines of a well-meaning conception of successful personality, ”harmonious and mature.” But we have no use for harmony and maturity if they only serve to make us ”scrappers” or ”prodigal elders.” — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 254

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• XREF: Challenges the well-meaning ‘harmonious and mature’ personality ideal — resonates with the reader’s interest in catching wellness-app language.