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Who can remonstrate with freedom? It is a norm of complicated life. Yet a criticism from a East African writer, Okot p’Bitek, shows that not everybody thinks it is indispensably a good thing. “[A person] cannot, and contingency not be free,” p’Bitek writes. “Son, mother, daughter, father, uncle, husband, grandmother, wife, medicine-man, and many other such terms, are a stamps of [a person’s] unfreedom. It is by such formidable terms that a chairman is tangible and identified.”

p’Bitek raises a surpassing doubt about what we consider a indicate of life is. His perspective is that we are all innate into an already existent set of relations and it is these relations that conclude us. We take a initial exhale as someone’s child and go by life relocating into connectors and pile of relationships.

p’Bitek would strongly remonstrate with a view of a psychiatrist Thom Szaz, who wrote, “Some people contend they haven’t nonetheless found themselves. But a self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”

Szaz was a complicated alloy of a mind and p’Bitek memorialized normal life, though it is p’Bitek, a writer, who is closer to a truth. Much of complicated psychology is built on a fake premise. We aren’t self-made though mostly other-made.