Personal identity between philosophy and psychology: a perpetual metamorphosis?

What is personal identity? What forms its nature? Is there a difference between identity and personality? What makes a “person” an individual, and what exactly is the person? What role is played by character, nature, environment, society, values and destiny in defining and substantiating a personal identity? How do persistence and change in identity coexist within a person? What is the nature of such a “change”? Is it just a natural process? And, are we sure it is a “process”? Which mechanism or force or dynamism determines it? And what is the function of culture, tradition and knowledge in representatively defining who we are and the way in which we understand ourselves, our relationship with others and, in general, the human being? Personal identity constitutively and perpetually fails to be immediately transparent to itself, because it is a reality in perpetual movement between instinctual instances and voluntary instances, between the solicitations of others and dilemmas of the will. At the same time, it continuously remains in a context of struggle for recognition, of a question addressed to the other and fear of misrecognition, between masking and the search for authenticity. This representation and reconfiguration of the self, which is always different and new, is the fundamental context of the reflective, narrative and translational game. However, the inner non-transparency persists (albeit in a new form) and the dimension of anchoring to the body, of the almost identical permanence of the face, of historicity or cultural belonging, of the permanence of human relationships are not an antidote. Rather, they are implications, fundamental parts of processuality, of that psychic and relational processuality that makes us a person.