How to establish and maintain an identity? Form a symbiotic relationship; find yourself a partner and set-up housekeeping. As long as the house remains intact, I can identify myself; the household protects me from delerium. The glue of the household is the covenant between the partners to identify themselves in common with a missing third part, the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

It is the nuclear action, or, action/re-action, that maintains the human family. The partners must practice mutual cannibalism to keep themselves together; it is in the exchange of genders and generations that identity is maintained; the operation is a co-operation, a sex exchange. This action/reaction is coitus; "if I become a husband/child and you become a wife/mother, we can seal ourself off from the delirium of all the nobodies."

In relation to the unconscious process, consciousness is imperial, a process of colonization; "Where there was id, ego shall be." The expansion of consciousness is at once a sealing of the border. The war on the ground is an internalization of the war against the unconscious. We have met the enemy, and it is our unconsciousness. Human beings kill each other to keep the light of consciousness alight.