About the book: 2009 / A Man in the Labyrinth of Identities. If this is a diagnosis, then the path from it leads first back to the anamnesis and only then to the prospects: self-identification or collapse. A little sharp attention, and a picture appears, potentiated philosophically: into a problem, and nosologically: into a disease. That a person, from the very first steps he takes in the space of history, bangs his head against the problem of his identity, is proven by many ancient evidence, among which the decisive place belongs to the Delphic oracle “know thyself.” It is characteristic that he continues to fight against it even after he has taken it into his head to announce the end of history, and to do this where history has not even really begun, although history from there has been setting the tone for half a century. What Socrates and any of “us” have in common is that both do not know that there is a person. Only ignorance of the first knows itself as ignorance, and ignorance of the second, not knowing anything, passes itself off as knowledge..