The Transformative Process of Self

Corbin: Self that I'm aspiring to is not logically accessible to me and those two reasons are deeply connected. So the symbolic self has to be internalized. Internalization is something other than you, yet it becomes something that is completely identified as you. Not just as an idea, it becomes part of your metacognitive reflective rationality in the case of internalizing Socrates. The stoic aspirant internalizes Socrates so that he can self transcend and become more socratic.