@michael:
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He argues that even apparently paradoxical traits, such as an optimistic pessimist, is built on a fast switch back and forth. So the pessimist flips into an optimist for a moment based on some stimulus, and flips back to pessimism afterwards.
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That sounds alot like 'thrashing' (I think its technical term is cognitive dissonance). With computers, thrashing occurs when there are so many processes the processor spends more time switching between them then actually running a process. Cognitive dissonance seems applicable here.
With two conflicting states in the psyche (a pessimistic state and an optimistic state) stress is created and more time is spent worrying than actually choosing a 'process' or state to run.
That form of identity seems much more rigid than fluid - is fluid identity something that isn't necessarily so black and white? Or is it switching into those states decisively without thrashing against the other states?
@Liara:
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...individuals believe themselves to have multiple identities...
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I have always referred to that as the persona - using one's ego they can create multiple persona's to match specific social queues - the values and core virtues of the identity stay constant across the personas, they are simply a different viewing lens for those being interacted with.
I am using the Jungian definition of Ego, in this case.