declaration of identity and identification

Question

1. In the highlighted part, does "declaration of identity" mean "mean "understanding the identity of others" and does "identification" mean "defining your own identity" or do both of them mean the same thing that is "general identification"?

Does "loss" here mean "the problem of not being able to understand things and a feeling of being lost"?

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Identity is perceptible only through a relation to an other – which is to say, it is a form of both resisting and claiming the other, declaring the boundary where the self diverges from and merges with the other. In that declaration of identity and identification, there is always loss, the loss of not-being the other and yet remaining dependent on that other for self-seeing, self-being.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

red applethat declaration of identity and identification

Refers (repeats) this phrase "declaring the boundary where the self diverges from and merges with the other."

red appleDoes "loss" here mean "the problem of not being able to understand things and a feeling of being lost"?

I think it means that when you claim those characteristics of your unique identity, you have to acknowledge those characteristics that are not part of you. These are lost to you. the other person claims and owns them.

Catttt · Answer

AlpheccaStars Do you think "diverge from" here means "to branch out from" or "to differ from"?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

red appleAlpheccaStars Do you think "diverge from" here means "to branch out from" or "to differ from"?

to branch out from

declaration of identity and identification

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