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Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes.... Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.

E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson

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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman

Born: June 11, 1922
Died: November 19, 1982 (aged 60)

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