One self or many?
On the axis: Nature of the self · the unity of the self
Am I a unified subject who says "I", or an assembly of voices and forces sometimes in conflict, part of which escapes me and acts without my knowing?
Justification
If the soul knows the eternal and unchanging intelligible, it is because it is akin to it: what grasps the simple must itself be simple. From this kinship Plato concludes that the true self is not the bodily composite but the soul, an immaterial substance that preexists birth and survives death. The Alcibiades sharpens the divide: a person is neither the body nor the compound of both, but "is" the soul, the body being merely an instrument it uses. This identification of the person with a separable , against any self bound up with embodiment, grounds the whole of Platonic psychology and eschatology.
Phaedo, 78b-80b · Alcibiades, 129e-130c
Anchors: Plato · Freud