Individuality is really a kind of unacknowledged emotional isolation for which by reflex we cultivate more self-definition as a cure, but only ever generate further discomfort and alienation.
In this way, personal subjectivity and individuated psychological experience come to unwittingly depend for emotional security upon precisely the referential distance and difference (of aspirational uniqueness) that initially caused the unhappiness and insecurity.
This is the closed loop as (introspective spiral of accelerating) self-identity generation.
Daedelus Kite 