The idea is a tricky, sticky one, bound up in conventional beliefs in the 'self' and the sense of concreteness in a statement like "a leopard never changes his spots". Is it possible to change one's personality and if so, how is such a change possible?
There is also alot of frustration contained within this idea of transformation. If one does achieve a drastic change in one's sense of 'Being-in-the-world' to pinch a phrase off Martin Heidegger, there would be an urge to communicate this and one would come up against a certain stubbornness and obstinacy that, although understandable, is something of a challenge to say the least.
So complicity and awareness are crucial to anyone's project of self-transformation or any attempt to deconstruct one's ego in order to find out (as much as is possible) what makes it tick. The issue of self-transformation is an ethical one insofar as a person must engage in this task of their own volition, dependent on their cultural and psychological context.
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