Beyond Self-Definition: Mapping Human Identity Structure, Adaptation and Narrative
Most approaches to identity rely on self-definition, personality descriptions or self-reported experience. This article examines longitudinal structural enquiry as a method for mapping possible core structure and differentiating it from adaptation and narrative through repeated observation over time. It also explains how the Identity Blueprint uses convergence across symbolic systems to generate a foundational hypothesis. The Blueprint can speed up orientation and guide later enquiry, but it does not perform differentiation or provide a final or authoritative map of identity.