The pathology of absolute identity.

We fall ill from an excess of ourselves. Absolute identity is an allergy: we are intolerant of our own selves.

The pathology of absolute identity.

Contemporary illness does not spread through contact but through isolation. ADHD, depression, and borderline disorders emerge when the subject becomes trapped in the echo chamber of their own subjectivity. We fall ill from an excess of ourselves, from an identity that has become a form of house arrest.

The immunological paradigm presupposed external enemies that needed to be repelled. But when the threat is one’s own selfhood, the immune system collapses from lack of use. Without otherness to react against, the organism compulsively attacks itself: hyper-identity produces psychic autoimmunity, the self rejects everything it does not recognize as familiar, until it ultimately rejects itself.

Contemporary discontent is born from the impossibility of being surprised by oneself. We live within closed subjectivities that have lost the capacity for genuine otherness. The current human condition is fundamentally allergic: we are intolerant of ourselves, unable to metabolize the difference that constitutes us.

Psychotherapy

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