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IDENTITY WILL BE CONVULSIVE OR WILL NOT EXIST.
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The sentence treats “convulsive” change as necessary for identity to exist. Identity is presented not as something calm or fixed, but as something formed through intense disruption or struggle. Without that upheaval, the statement says, there is no identity at all.
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