Nature and nurture on the matter of selfhood The true self Selfhood and consistency Self-denial and the self as a role-play Openness and sincerity Selfhood and the comfort zone The self is not a dogma Annex with the lyrics of “The life of others” If, however, the nature magnitude is dynamic then one must wonder what is left for nurture: if evolving circumstances are still reducible to underlying natural responses that are personalised and are thus part of nature, then the concept of nurture does not help us much. Instead of trying to formulate a narrative of selfhood that encompasses all these phases, it is appropriate to postulate that each phase has its own particularities which may or may not be present in other phases.