The individual self is a distinctive object of knowledge.

Evidence

But within the range of objects, which we may know cor- rectly or about which we may be deceived, there is a section wherein both truth and deception can attain a character that is not found anywhere else. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7586

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalytic self-knowledge requires treating oneself as an external object