Identity is the result of the distinction from the other and the internalization of the relationship to the other; it arises out of the complex history of "differentiation" in which both the self and the other take part by negotiating their identities in interaction with one another. Hence, as Paul Ricoeur has argued in Oneself as Another, "the selfhood of oneself implies otherness to such an intimate degree that one cannot be thought of without the other" (Ricoeur 1992, 3).

This note was recorded by Joshua Neds-Fox from page 66 of Exclusion and Embrace.