# Identity Partitioning **Domain:** Memory / Identity / Institutional Control **Function:** Divides access to memory, role, agency, or autobiographical continuity across distinct contexts or operative selves. Identity partitioning can be therapeutic, defensive, technological, occupational, or coercive. The decisive issue is not simply whether partitions exist, but who creates them, who can cross them, what each partition knows, and whether the affected person can refuse, inspect, integrate, or leave the arrangement. [[wiki/Severance (TV series)|Severance]] literalizes the concept as an employment architecture. [[wiki/Westworld S3E6 — The Model Beneath the Model|Westworld S3E6]] explores a related but different structure: William's historical selves appear together as a [[wiki/Self-Model Ensemble|Self-Model Ensemble]], and the therapeutic system invites resolution through destruction rather than accountable integration. Partitioning therefore sits between [[wiki/Memory Integration vs Identity Erasure|Memory Integration vs Identity Erasure]]. A boundary can protect a person, but an institutionally imposed boundary can also prevent the person from understanding or contesting the full system acting through them. ## Related [[wiki/Ownership of Mind|Ownership of Mind]] · [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] · [[wiki/Model-Subject Boundary|Model-Subject Boundary]] · [[wiki/Moral Compartmentalization|Moral Compartmentalization]] · [[wiki/Narrative Control|Narrative Control]]