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... "... We will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology" (Noam Chomsky). To what extent would you agree? "Man does not live by bread alone" Unlike animals, humans are a strange case of self-conscious beings. We can ask questions about ourselves, we can deliberate about others. We form opinions and judgments about others whereas animals are content on feeding themselves and they do not even ask questions about themselves. This is the primary source of the emergence of the human identity. 'Who am I?' is the question that encompasses our identity. But ironically while we call it the 'I' or 'me', we often fail to realize that a large portion of it is in fact constructed by 'others'- their opinions, ideas, and experiences. Human life and human personality are nothing but a gradual development through the accumulation of 'knowledge' through
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