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Selves in process
Kant's idea was taken further by successors who saw individual selves -- you and me -- as constituted within this process rather than as its outside manipulators. The self is not an active power above the process, nor is it a passive product. It comes to be as part of the process, neither its lord nor its remainder. We actively sustain and rework our self-descriptions and social identities, and in that sense we are both product and producer. Our inhabitation of places shows habit and social inertia coexisting with active repetition and reappropriation. Our subjectivity emerges in and as the process of mediating and maintaining itself.