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Primary And Secondary Identities:
Everyone has varying contexts for the interpretation of reality over and above the Ego. Contexts for Interpretation can be created from many perspectives. After a rock is smashed someone could say, not good for the rock. However most interpretive contexts proceed through the vehicle of Identities as personifications. A Primary Identity is that personification of which the individual identifies and would describe themselves, and the Interpretive Context primarily relied upon and incorporated.
She told everyone she was a writer.
All individuals tend to have more than one Identity, such as father or mother, teacher, driver of a vehicle, hobbies, political or cultural interests, although these Identities are generally not recognized as such. An Identity is a Context in which reality is interpreted such as when driving. The Primary Identity is often determined by cultural mores, such as 'woman's place is in the home', or 'the man as the breadwinner'. Or the individual can adopt, select or create any Primary Identity, of which may conflict with the Ego as husband and family man, and a Secondary Identity as secret womanizer.
Horizontal Thinking:
Those who use primarily the Ego as Interpretive Context would be said to think Horizontally, meaning side by side affinities, differences, similarities and distinctions as opposed to better or worse and superior/inferior. A bird is not considered as superior to a bug or bear, but as distinct. The mosquito might be of far greater nuisance than the butterfly, but that is not the fault of either of the insects. Human relationships would be based on the similarities or differences of the genetic, biological and socialized character, human experience or various skill capacities, rather than the exceptionalism of facilities, like specialized professional capacities.
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