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Quote by George Herbert Mead
The self is not something that exists first and then enters into relationship with others, but it is, so to speak, an eddy in the social current.
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The quote compares a person to an eddy in moving water. An eddy is a distinct pattern formed within a larger current, not something separate from it. Likewise, the self is presented as taking shape through relationships with other people, rather than existing fully on its own before those relationships begin.
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