{"id":46837,"date":"2023-04-20T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=46837"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:14:13","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/who-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Who am I? It\u2019s a simple question, but one that is difficult to answer. I am myself and remain myself \u2013 even if some of my possessions are taken away from me \u2013 because I have them; however, I am not them. And what about important experiences that I\u2019ve had and that I don\u2019t want to miss because they\u2019ve become a part of my personality?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re not an interchangeable possession. My father, who twice experienced the devaluation of his money, used to say: travel is the safest investment. Those who can look back with satisfaction on a rich life in old age are able to identify with their memories \u2013 I am the one who has experienced all this. However, am I only or primarily my past? The person who loses his memory, by accident, is badly off. However, no less so the individual who loses his future, because with the loss of perspective of the future, the meaning of life is also lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some young people speak of \u00abNo future\u00bb when they want to express their loss of identity. Psychiatrists sound a little more academic when they speak about losing the meaning of life in neurosis. I am not only who I have become, but perhaps even more who I can become \u2013 and want to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From<\/strong> Johannes W. Schneider: \u2039Who am I?\u203a \u2013 p. 59, Stuttgart 2021: From Jean-Claude Lin, \u00abIn the Garden of Time\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom<br><strong>Graphic<\/strong> Sofia Lismont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? It\u2019s a simple question, but one that is difficult to answer. I am myself and remain myself \u2013 even if some of my possessions are taken away from me \u2013 because I have them; however, I am not them. And what about important experiences that I\u2019ve had and that I don\u2019t want to miss because they\u2019ve become a part of my personality? They\u2019re not an interchangeable possession. My father, who twice experienced the devaluation of his money, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16394,"featured_media":45680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8848],"tags":[11311,8819],"class_list":["post-46837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-literature","tag-2023-10-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}