On the Attitude of the Individual to Himself
The article is devoted to the problem of personal identification. The interaction of people in modern society is based on the dependence of one person on another and the need of one for another. A person forms his identity under the influence of both norms and values that are common to the culture as a whole and special for the subculture. It is shown that a person can be a subject of social relations only to the extent that his activity merges with the activities of other people who are part of a historical community or a stable association of people. In other words, an individual is a true subject of social relations, the creator of reality and an active principle only because such a subject is the community into which he enters and whose interests are objectively determined by his activity. Thus, identification is not a free, but a socially conditioned choice of belonging to a certain group.