in a sense, it is a paradoxical way of saying sort of save yourself.
for delving in that, there is material like hegel for example (ideas like concrete universal ). or kitaro nishida's absolutely contradictory self-identity, if you are interested in some discourse which is on the eastern side.
hedi slimane "why should I give up on what defines me? "
franz kafka "in the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world. "
the difference between idol (is it selling well? is it popular?) and (what is to be) classic
you guys say gifted. proust would put it like moi et plus que moi.
when you do something creative, you could be more of container than content. waiting to be filled and satisfied with fragments of the world. but maybe we all really are dative rather than subject/object. place where the world appears.