The gift of memory: Sheltering the I. Jacobson, K. In Morris, D. & Maclaren, K., editors, Time, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self, pages 29–42. Ohio University Press, Athens, 2015. abstract bibtex [first paragraph] It is easy to think of myself as the direct possessor of my identity, as holding within myself the person that I am. Yet experience tells me otherwise: I find myself in and through the things, the people, and places of my unfolding life. My identity is sheltered in the world around me; as Bachelard writes, it is “the non-I that protects the I.”1 Building on Merleau-Ponty's notion of the dilated character of our way of being-in-the-world, I explore this idea and specifically argue that it is through memory, and its gift-like character, that we are returned to ourselves by what lies beyond us, that we maintain and develop an identity across time. I argue that memory, like a home, provides us with a dynamic pivot for our past and future; it is the living, breathing landscape of identity.
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