ABSTRACT
Until today, the issue of how to connect personal reflexivity (i.e. inner conversation) and social reflexivity (i.e. how social relations affect the identity of the subject reflexively) has remained opened. An answer is proposed from the point of view of relational sociology. The argument is that it is possible and necessary to distinguish between two kinds of reflexivity (inner and relational), their different contributions, and their complex connections in the process of structural and cultural morphogenesis of the agent's identity. A conceptual framework, capable of empirical verification, is proposed that can explain the relational constitution of agents beyond the limits and fallacies of both individualist and radically relationist approaches. It is possible to understand this reality if we are able to see the enigma of the relation, which consists in the fact that the relation unites the terms that it connects while, at the same time, it respects and promotes their specific difference.
