Individuality as ipseity is the core f the self yet is too fragile and inexplicably ungounded taken by itself so you purposefully seek to sublate into a larger impersonal and deathless life or soul. This is an approachable gal in terms of the imaginary and the symbolic, and even more so socially and affectively. In terms of the real, however, it remains stuck at the first step. Indeed your very ipseity is already entirely a compromise, an image of itself in all those other dimensions. Only the real relation matters, everything else is an elaborate evasion.