The constitutive individual, on the other hand, is not a selective self, fortifying itself by preference or by guarded civility; nor does it hide behind an adroit management of masks (personae). It is a composite unity of singularity and commonality that from its inception is already underway, continually undertaking and undergoing its own constitution—not by election merely, but by participation. I cannot separate out my genetic endowment or my enculturation from me: I do not have them as property.