Post-Ego reflection is an uncentered composition where opposed moments illuminate each other

Evidence

Just as duration can be determined only in the presence of alternation, and just as it is only the alternation of nonessential properties that throws constancy of substance into bold relief, so too the ego is apparently perceived as the one constant in all the alternation of psychological contents, especially when these contents provide a particularly rich opportunity. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 703 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 802; Background elements are unified implicitly by their relation to a focal goal; Reflection splits consciousness in a split never completed (+4 more)

Related

• Ego emerges as the constant amid rapid psychic alternation (similarity 0.86)
• Personality arises from consciousness’s reflective self-presence, not from the Ego (similarity 0.85)
• Reflection splits consciousness in a split never completed (similarity 0.85)
• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness (similarity 0.85)
• Reflection is consciousness attempting to become its own object (similarity 0.83)
• The Ego is a transcendent unity of states, qualities, and acts (similarity 0.82)
• The Ego appears only when consciousness reflects on itself. (similarity 0.80)
• Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be (similarity 0.80)
• In reflection, the reflective and reflected-on are neither identical nor fully separate (similarity 0.80)
• Reflection aims impossibly to unify the for-itself with itself into a totality (similarity 0.78)
• Rational reflection is always weaker than the illusions it dispels (similarity 0.78)
• Reflection is the for-itself grounding itself as a for-itself (similarity 0.78)
• The Ego exists as an object of pre-reflective consciousness, not as a repudiated entity. (similarity 0.78)
• Reflection divides into pure and impure kinds, distinguished by their relation to temporality (similarity 0.78)
• Dismissing the Ego threatens to annihilate the philosopher’s interpretive initiative (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ego emerges as the constant amid rapid psychic alternation #complicates (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 703