2.3. Contradictory aspects: the talent as limitation

When the perspective is only or especially that of  self-fulfillment, personal talent is accorded too much importance and everything is seen in prospects of fulfilling it, as though it were the most important thing and the most relevant aspect of one’s identity. The vocational choice, for example, is done starting off from one’s talents: the subject cannot choose (and choose himself) outside these, nor later make any choice or accept any proposal if he does not have the certainty of succeeding perfectly in the service requested, without any freedom to risk anymore, to try new things, to aim high. And the talent thus becomes, paradoxically, like a limitation to one’s fulfillment, while the individual who wanted to fulfill himself condemns himself to repeat himself in a compulsion (or…a cloning) to repeat. (trans.note: play on words: “coazione o…clonazione”)