who am i?

When asked to filled out applications for passport, work etc., we are mostly asked to identify ourselves by such classifications as gender, title, place of birth, place of residence, marital status, nationality, race, profession, complexion, height, weight, None of these offers much of a clue to us as individuals. It says nothing of our relationship life and the range of identities we have in all our different relationship interactions.
And yet even these, varied though they are, may not even touch on the identities and identifications that we have in our waking and nighttime dreaming life – the figures of our night time dreams and daytime fantasies and those with which we identify through fiction and movies etc.,

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no Identity – he is continually informing some other body – the Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women…”
John Keats

“J’es autre” – (“I am other.”)
Artur Rimbaud

‘The temptation to be what one seems to be is great, because the persona is usually rewarded in cash.”
C.G. Jung

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.”
William Shakespeare.

To these three, he might also have added ‘dreamers’.

To have a sense of the breadth and variety of these identities click on the Identity maze button on the left. This is not a comprehensive list of identities and does not include any of those under race, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, nor those of affiliation to the animal and plant realm, but is meant as an indicator of the range of identities and how we move continuously from one to another. At one moment, one comes into the foreground and others recede into the background. It is arranged in different loose clusters.

Contact details:
David Clark
Email: david@activityzero.com
Mobile: 07711 939 469