To you, what is the difference between self identity and self

>>9905897
Self-expression is the actual form of self-identity. Perhaps the authors who condemn self-identity do so in order to encourage action over words. The self has no substance until it is given form by expression into reality through word or deed... but talking about your self-identity means that you are acting in accordance with it, does it not? I see few ways that these are dissimilar. Perhaps the caution is one against the holding of a belief of identity that is incongruous with the identity that is actually expressed.

>>9905998
Relative to Marx and Eastern philosophy, they reject self identity because they find it vain or as a way to distance yourself from community. There has to be done difference between vanity and art, right?

>>9906080
I don't believe that having a sense of self is inherently vain at all. How is one supposed to create art (is self-expression inherently artistic?) that illuminates their inner self if they have no sense of what that inner self is?
There may be fault in cultivating uniqueness at the expense of social acceptance. Once again, however, the individual's actions have alienated him; he has expressed himself as opposed to society, and his self-identity has become actualized.