 Man might be defined as a reflexive animal. A person cannot help thinking and speaking of himself as, and even feeling himself to be (for certain purposes), two people, one of whom can act upon and observe the other. Thus, he pities, loves, admires, hates, despises, rebukes, comforts, examines, masters or is mastered by, “himself” […] He is privy to his own acts, is his own conscius or accomplice. And of course, this shadowy inner accomplice has all the same properties as an external one; he too is a witness against you, a potential blackmailer, one who inflicts shame and fear. (Lewis 1960: 187; see also Sorabji 2014: 12)