[IF I refuse to see myself as “a person who is an image of God”,

THEN, in actuality, instead of seeing myself, I see only those aspects of me that conform to a limited normal context. I do not feel God’s Omnipotence in myself. Both I and myself emerge from “a potency that does not encompass all other human beings”.

In sin, both “I” and “what I recognize, that is myself”, corrode my participation in the divine economy. Misrecognition and arrogance correspond to refusal and usurpation.]