Our text credits Freud with inventing identify with... But Royce deserves prior credit for the concept, not as a strictly psychological tool of self-creation but as a psycho-social lever of self-expansion, growth, and solidarity.
"The willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause," the eagerness of a person to identify with and work on behalf of a cause larger than his or her or any singular life, a cause that affirms and advances the lives of individuals and the collective, continuous life of our species, is the meaning of loyalty. David Brooks has said it's a philosophy for our time, though Josiah Royce published this in 1908.
"The willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause," the eagerness of a person to identify with and work on behalf of a cause larger than his or her or any singular life, a cause that affirms and advances the lives of individuals and the collective, continuous life of our species, is the meaning of loyalty. David Brooks has said it's a philosophy for our time, though Josiah Royce published this in 1908.
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