Playing One's Self

Different modes of role-playing exemplify three main Evolvemental categories--Heteronomy, Autonomy, and Idionomy. Heteronomous role-playing includes being pushed into a role by others, and instinctively emulating a role-model. Autonomous role-playing includes the choosing of a role out of a range of pre-given roles. There is thus a very fine line between Heteronomy and Autonomy--e. g. when the least undesirable out of a range of pre-given roles is the choice. So, for example, many careers in contemporary American society fall in between Heteronomy and Autonomy, and social stasis depends on the endurance of a range of pre-given roles. In contrast, playing a role that one has created for oneself is Idionomic, though, such role-playing is typically limited to specific contexts. Instead, the unlimited Idionomic role is One's Self, as explicated by the Formaterial concept of Individual Experience. To play One's Self, one actualizes one's image of oneself that is a variation on what one has become to the moment, which, as has been previous discussed, is the fundamental structure of all Individual Experience. Furthermore, insofar one is constantly varying oneself, with repetition as a special case, one is continuously re-creating oneself. With the discovery of this fundamental structure of Experience, all role-playing can be transformed into Idionomy.