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...to be able to say that I am I is not an inference from the statement that I think thought nor from the statement that I have a law-acknowledging conscience. It is, rather, the acknowledgment of my existence as the counterpart of another self.
The distinguishing characteristic of a self is that it is a being which is an object to itself, something we cannot say of bodies or even of minds as minds. To be a being that is an object to itself is possible genetically and actually only as I take toward myself the attitude of other selves, see myself as seen, hear myself as heard, speak to myself as spoken to. After a self has arisen, it in a certain sense provides for itself its social experiences, and so we can conceive of an absolutely solitary self...

(31/10/2006)