From Hamlet, the work of Shakespeare, comes lines of wisdom: “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” ...

but rather little about 'the self'—at least, as one is initially likely to understand this term. It is, of course, a notoriously slippery term. LeDoux's own definition is “the totality of what ...