The urge to claim a space for the self collides and colludes with the urge to construct a self to fit the space.
Sallie Tisdale shares a beautiful essay from her newly released collected essays, Violation, in which she meditates in frenzy and anxiety over the question of the self: whether or not one can know themselves, if the self is only as others see it.
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