Reflections on Transitional Phenomena

Abstract

Is 'modern' life alienated? What reasonable chance do we stand of attaining the status of a unity, an individual, in the midst of vast change? The term 'self' has begun to generate an influential discourse around these questions in contemporary thought. The term is often evoked as an assurance felt within, imparting a sense of continuity to the experience of all-pervasive change, even as its loss is associated with chaos.