The self-in-conduct continues its practice as, paradoxically, commitment to SRS might also act as a goad to linger in the group therapy where conduct is schooled and adjudicated and where the liberty to assert new forms of the self not following from the prescriptions of one’s fellows is upheld through the very elastic and tangled course of conversation and cultural elaboration. But this self-in-conduct conflicts with the desire of the fantasy for the serenity of the true self committed to a vita nuova for our time.
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