Identity: The Way In. The Way Out.
Revised Edition (2025)
“Identity feels like a room I’ve lived in for years without really looking at the walls. Now my hand rests on the handle.”
We often treat identity as a solid object—something we build, defend, and polish. But in Identity: The Way In. The Way Out., Dr. Simon Robinson suggests it is more like a performance we have forgotten we are acting in. This book is a phenomenological guide to the masks we wear, the roles we play, and the quiet vertigo of realizing “I am not my story.”
The Way In traces how the self is constructed—through approval, shame, and the “internal ratchet” of needing to be good. The Way Out is not about destroying the ego, but about seeing through it. It is a journey from the “tightness” of constant self-management to a place where the boundary between “me” and “you” softens, and the need to be someone special is replaced by the freedom to simply be.
A Visual Introduction
Inside the Book
This is not a textbook of theories, but a sequence of observations. It invites you to pause and look at the “mechanism” of yourself—to notice the tension in the wrist before you open the door.
Tracing the line where “goodness” became a cage.
Finding the audience behind the roles.
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