CE VEDEM CÂND ÎL VEDEM PE OMUL VITRUVIAN DIN SPATE?
Analele Universităţii din Craiova seria Filosofie June 29, 2026 Cristina Ursu
The self does not automatically coincide with itself; the command to know oneself implies a gap between the self and its own awareness. This paper explores how identity with oneself can be replaced or substituted within the structure of self-relation, using the image of the Vitruvian Man seen from behind as a symbol. Subjectivity involves more than just having experiences, because even though every experience belongs to a subject, that does not mean the subject experiences itself as the origin of those experiences. The paper reframes the problem of consciousness from whether experience exists to how it is given to itself—either as originating or not. It distinguishes structural reflexivity, which is inherent in conscious experience, from metanoic reflexivity, which creates reflective distance and allows disidentification from substitute forms of self-relation.