Identity is ‘who we really are’. It is about our boundaries – where
we end and the world and other people begin. It’s about our
deepest ‘sense of self’, a realisation we frst made in infancy,
that we are separate individuals needing to survive a whole
host of dangers, and that we often spend the rest of our lives
making sense of. Identity is precious and often vulnerable but at
the same time can be perceived as being set in stone, to a point
where people have no notion that it can be changed. People will
give up a lot – in the case of martyrs for a cause, everything –
rather than face any challenge to their identity.
Robbie Steinhouse
