The Social Practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining Personal Identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible.
Done well, Holding allows individuals to flouris.
To hold someone in her identity is to treat her according to the stories one uses to make sense of who she is.
Our Identities give us our sense of how we are supposed to act and how we may or must treat others, so how we hold each other in our Identities is of crucial moral importance.
The Social Practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining Personal Identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible