Identity

So, this post has a title. I guess over the years when we have discussed swirls we rarely linked it overtly to identity. And yet now it seems to have come to the foreground.
What seems obvious is that a swirl experience bears on identity in a particularly negative way.
So, here are some random thoughts. Kafka's Metamorphosis is one example. If we think that it does exemplify something to do with swirls then for sure one of the dominant issues is how a swirl experience impacts identity. In the Kafka story the ascription, the taken for granted ascription is, of course, undone and transformed. And that also is a feature of a swirl experience. It is as if the outer layer of who I am is transformed almost instantaneously into something totally negative. In Metamorphosis the new identity is disgusting. It does not though have to be disgusting, but in the movement into the swirl there is a move into a sort of black hole which is constituted by any number of negative features. I do not imagine that once one has entered this space, and entering is no choice, one could take on any number of negative ascriptions. What determines the swirl identity must have something to do with the intensity of the complex of feelings that accompany what might seem like a descent into a sort of underworld space.
The movement in seems unstoppable but the movement out is more complex and laboured. The point being that negative ascriptions, negative layers that constitute identity, stick. And maybe this is one of the essential aspects of identity politics. Without that there is just a singularity that provides no hook of recognition that might easily alleviate the negative associations. Indeed the point of recognition or acknowledgment is that they logically the object invariably, always(?) involved something generic.