Who is Cressida? Fidelity and drama in personal identity

Abstract

Starting off of a passage of a work of Shakespeare, the roll of fidelity in the configuration of the personal identity will be reviewed. The article is centered in tow main tendencies in the conception of the same one, taken root in the narrative understanding of the self: the fidelity like permanence opposite to change and the fidelity like opening and advance towards what makes be, gives unity and make sense. But the self is discovered in both cases divided, needed to narrate for being, fighting with time, that can appears like threat as well as obstacle to be only one and a different one. The alternative that sets out here lies in a fidelity like return to the essential, where the being and the unity of self remain, whereas he open himself to the newness of that fundamental. This opening consist basically in a dialogue, in which the self receives and gives his own, playing its being in the dramatic space, thus actualizing every time the self, its unity and its sense.