"Answer only those questions." Here goes:

1) When might the will realize itself and set aside its 'immediacy'?
2) What is the relationship of the personality to the world - one of dominance?
3) Won't the need to claim the external world as our own, make us misrecognize it? How aware of it, in its strangeness, can we possibly be if we are driven to claim it as being a part of ourselves?
4) Are nations personalities writ large?
5) What happens to personalities that seek pacification in possession?

(1) The will might realize itself and overcome its "immediacy" at the instant it acquires something new and desired. (2) This instant, in which personality gives itself reality by taking a piece of the objective world and successfully identifying it as "self," will be both selfish and altruistic. Someone says that to a passionate book collector, a book's perfect freedom can only be realized when that volume has been plucked from general circulation and placed upon his shelves. (5) But it also seems that this instant will pass and the personality's "struggle to give itself reality" will begin again. There is some residue of personality untouched by the instant of fulfillment. One can come up with a story about why this is so. The personality is enlarged by its new acquisition; it has stolen a march on objective reality; it is momentarily enchanted with its increased scope. But external events or simple boredom impinge on this self-enchantment; the new object begins to be taken for granted; the gaze turns outward again. (3) Another story would say that in taking something other as ourselves, we make the mistake of seeing our reflection in a mirror and behaving as though we were really like it, whereas it is just a reflection; gradually our mistake must become apparent, and the process begins again. (2, 4) But this is a story about personality as accretion, gain, expansion. It is not very interesting. The dragon goes out and gets the treasure, and brings it to his cave; then he goes out and gets more. (5) The interesting stories happen when the dragon is asleep. Someone adventurer always comes and tries to get the treasure without waking the dragon. But who cares if the dragon wakes up or not? There is a more important question: (1) what is he dreaming about in his sleep? This is why the adventurer wants the treasure: (3) it enables the dragon to dream, and he wants to dream as well - to have treasure that will give him endless dreams. 4) Some of us want the dragon to wake up and kill the adventurer; others want the dragon to wake up, force a fight, and be gloriously killed; others want to see a successful theft, undisturbed and undiminished dreams, and the increase of dreams with the circulation of treasure.

When might the will realize the stage when it has fully realized itself, overcoming or setting aside it's 'immediacy'?

Is there something to the choice of the phrase 'stands over'? What is the personality's relationship to the world which defines it ("I am completely determined on every side (in my inner caprice, impulse, and desire, as well as by immediate external facts) and so finite") and which it doesn't know as defining it ("none the less I am simply and solely self-relation, and therefore in finitude I know myself as something infinite, — universal, and free.")? Is it one of dominance?

Keeping on with the above what is our level of awareness of the external world? If the will is simply self-relation at this stage, is the movement to 'claim that external world as our own" an almost automatic action?

What is the relationship between this personality/self and the nation? Does it too want to "give itself reality"? Does it to want nothing more than to make, to have, something as its own?

Does it help to do so? What happens to us or a nation who finds pacification in possession?

Text:

As immediate individuality, a person in making decisions is related to a world of nature directly confronting him, and thus the personality of the will stands over against this world as something subjective. For personality, however, as inherently infinite and universal, the restriction of being only subjective is a contradiction and a nullity. Personality is that which struggles to lift itself above this restriction and to give itself reality, or in other words to claim that external world as its own.

Literal interpretation:

The human personality exists constantly at two moments, each of which claims the whole of everything as its own. It is inextricably caught between these two moments. The will is universal yet requires and is defined by the immediacy of things - and thus is also particular and subjective. It is both infinitely bounded and utterly free. This is naturally difficult for Personality. It is thus defined as an inherent struggle toward reconciliation.

For the author, Personality's attempt at self love, as it were - its desire to cleave to itself, and "give itself reality" - necessarily implies the reciprocal action of taking, having, owning. Personality necessarily entails the possibility of ownership: perhaps this pacifies its painful nothingness, caught between universality and particularity. In any event, Personality wants nothing more than to make, to have, something as its own.

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