sissyrobbi Posted December 5, 2014 Report Posted December 5, 2014 in all our adventures kinky or otherwise .. can it be said that the personality out shines the person seen bare before us? and if not so ..... what must become of this person? Quote
Mistress Kang Posted December 6, 2014 Report Posted December 6, 2014 in all our adventures kinky or otherwise .. can it be said that the personality out shines the person seen bare before us? and if not so ..... what must become of this person? Feeling an ittybitty cryptic, are we? English please! I don't speak Friday-night-drunk-babble ;-( Quote
sissyrobbi Posted December 6, 2014 Author Report Posted December 6, 2014 certainly didn't intend for it to be cryptic. i'm a simple man. simple queries. are you real or are you something else? person vs personality. often people fake their way into others lives simply to suck the life out from under them. spanks for the fakes!! kisses for the reals!!!! Quote
Mistress Kang Posted December 6, 2014 Report Posted December 6, 2014 Interesting this is on your mind. Does it relate to a recent event/encounter in your life? I see you're on FetLife, personally, that's always been a frustrating experience, unfulfilling. Can you please answer your own question? I'm happy to continue with my own answer in the same vein. Quote
questionmarks Posted December 7, 2014 Report Posted December 7, 2014 My favorite film is Ingmar Bergman's Persona, which explores this sort of issue. A nurse and her mute patient (an actress who has suffered some kind of apparent mental break) are secluded, and the nurse, trying to rehabilitate the patient, starts to find her identity, her public self and the way she presents and perceives herself, being taken over and shaped by her encounter with her patient. (The first time I saw it I had the only nightmare I've had as an adult!) I'm not clear on the distinction between person and personality. Are we right to think there is some singular true person always there in every moment of our lives? What about the ways that the intersubjective contexts shape the personalities we adopt, the ways that we relate differently to different people and surroundings in different sitautions? I believe biology and upbringing both very powerfully shape the parameters of our personalities, but I am not convinced we each have a singular true self or person. I suspect it is more like a spectrum, different ranges of which we occupy in different moments of our days and lives. Some people can manipulate this more intentionally than others, and some people do so for any number of reasons, including many reasons that would strike me as healthy or compassionate or the like. Like Mistress Kang, I'm not totally sure what ittybitty's question is, but I find the concepts of person, persona, personality, and self really interesting and important. Quote
sissyrobbi Posted December 7, 2014 Author Report Posted December 7, 2014 fetlife is pretty empty ... as is most social networking. i guess i'm tired of people not being real ... i want real. guess i'm just testing the waters .... looking for like mindedness Quote
sissyrobbi Posted December 7, 2014 Author Report Posted December 7, 2014 bravo james .... bravo Quote
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