The Unfolding of Identity – Article 3: The Inevitable Resolution: Identity in the New Paradigm

Throughout this series, we have seen how the fragmentation of identity was not an accidental failure but a necessary contradiction appearing within time. The crisis of identity in the modern world—the collapse of stable reference points, the relativization of selfhood, and the apparent dissolution of boundaries—is not the destruction of identity but a moment in its unveiling. As with all contradictions, this dissolution serves to reveal the necessity of identity, not as an arbitrary construction, but as an indestructible reality that appears through time.

Beyond the Illusion of Self-Creation

The modern paradigm has encouraged the idea that identity is fluid, self-generated, and subject to continual revision. But if identity were purely contingent, then it would have no necessity, and what lacks necessity ultimately collapses into nothingness. However, this is not what we see. Even in the most extreme relativistic frameworks, identity persists—it is merely obscured by the contradictions inherent in partial perspectives.

A person may claim to redefine themselves endlessly, but this presupposes an underlying continuity—the fact that there is a self that experiences this supposed fluidity. The attempt to escape a fixed identity paradoxically confirms that something persists across all attempts at dissolution. The very effort to negate identity reaffirms its inescapable necessity.

Identity as the Appearing of the Eternal

If Being is indestructible, then so too is identity, for identity is not something separate from Being but an expression of it. The self is not merely a construct arising from social, biological, or psychological conditions but an eternal reality that necessarily appears in time. What changes is not identity itself but the way it appears—the historical, cultural, and individual perspectives through which it is understood.

This recognition allows us to move beyond the oscillation between rigid essentialism and radical fluidity. Neither extreme captures the truth of identity, which is neither an external imposition nor a subjective invention but the necessary unfolding of what is already eternally present. The contradictions of modern identity were not errors to be corrected but conditions that had to appear before the broader recognition of identity’s necessity could emerge.

The Recognition of Identity in the New Paradigm

The contradictions of identity fragmentation are reaching their limits. As relativism dissolves under its own inconsistencies, and as the failures of self-creation become more apparent, the necessity of identity as an eternal structure begins to emerge. This is not a return to past conceptions of identity but an expansion of understanding—a movement beyond the oscillation between dogma and dissolution toward the recognition that identity is neither an arbitrary social construct nor a fixed, external essence but the inevitable appearing of what has always been.

This new paradigm does not impose an identity from outside nor does it reduce identity to mere subjectivity. Rather, it acknowledges that identity is always already there, appearing in different configurations through time but never ceasing to be what it is. In this, we see the resolution of the contradictions that have defined the modern crisis of identity—not by rejecting them, but by recognizing that they were necessary stages in the process of truth’s unfolding.

Conclusion: The Path from Contradiction to Recognition

The crisis of identity has not been a dead end but a necessary passage, revealing that identity is not something that can be destroyed or redefined out of existence. It is part of the eternal structure of Being, appearing through time and resolving its own contradictions. The West’s identity crisis, postmodern relativism, and the collapse of stable categories were not the destruction of identity but the necessary conditions for its deeper recognition.

What emerges is not a new ideology of identity but the recognition that identity, like all things, belongs to the eternal. It does not need to be created, protected, or reconstructed—it simply is, and its appearing in time unfolds inevitably, in accordance with the necessity of Being itself. The resolution of identity is not something imposed upon history but something that has always already been, awaiting its full recognition in time.