Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY, cilt.55, sa.3, ss.327-343, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
This study explores self-identity as an indeterminate temporal and spatial unity, resulting from bodily and perceptual interactions with the world and others. In Husserl's analyses on the consciousness of time, the constitution of time is a unifying act out of a manifold of contents. The idea of "manifold" constituted as "one" will guide our understanding of the self as "self-variation." Husserl's examinations on primary and secondary memory will show us their unifying function and capacity to generate variations despite possible deceptions in recollections. Thus, it shows how we perceive, remember, and believe our past experiences generates new recollections of the self, leading to a new variation of the self. Self-variation has a self-reflective character and requires the existence of others. It will be argued that, in light of both remarks, we can conceive of self-identity as a unity only in its ever-changing variations. This dynamic structure of memory and self-variations leads to an understanding of the generative nexus of self-identity, for which Iwill propose the term "generative identity."