If I were to consider a self that was the antithesis of myself I suspect it could help me honestly consider myself, in a way that, without this exercise I could not honestly see.
For example, the antithesis of myself should be (politically) Thatcherite, (as an artist) Saatchi-ite, then racist, spiteful, vengeful, dishonest etc. Then I could assume that the opposite of myself would be gay, or black or a woman (as I am none of these).
But the immediate problems thrown up by such considerations are that many of these categorisations do not sit comfortably with my sense of myself blurring or debating the boundaries of these things, as a growing, thinking, becoming and challenging self.
Hmmm, even further, we can see that the exercise produces all these 'things' as ontologies -in which I also do not believe ( my PhD revolved around doubt about Things).
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