When I was about five years old a girl greeted me with the word "Püppi"/ dolly. My reply was that I was not her "Püppi"! Something that felt quite natural and common sense at the time.
Magritte's painting points out the issue quite clearly, the image one has made up is not the thing or the person.
Nowadays I get the strong notion though that a lot of people hold a sort of reversed view on the issue. The symbol has turned on them and they tend to liken themselves to it. Out of sheer fear of the might of these symbols they will become iconoclastic, when all they should do is realise that the symbol never represented them.
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