Rungta, Pranaw: The Dissolution of the Self: Reification and the Primacy of Relation

This essay argues that the self is not an enduring entity but the effect of a recurrent operation: the appropriation of experience as “mine.” Through an analysis of temporality, it shows how continuity—structured by memory and anticipation—is organized around a functional center, which is subsequently reified as an independently existing subject. This misinterpretation generates a structurally unstable identity, since the self depends on the continuous maintenance of a temporal coherence that ca