Human Development

Personal identification

Description:
This type of identification is the one for which the term 'identification' is most commonly used and is that which arises as one interacts and becomes involved with other entities. The experience is of other people, things, ideas being part of one's own identity and any attack upon them as being an attack on one's self. Unlike the other types of identification (separately described), 'personal' identification cannot really be thought of as 'transpersonal'.
Context:
The first of three bases of identification enunciated by Warwick Fox as necessary for realizing an expansive sense of self.<