Self actualisation - students authoring themselves?

For Bakhtin (according to Holquist interpretation)

The realisation of the authored "I" is inherently intertwined with the languages, dialects, genres and words of others: "In order to be known, to be perceived as a figure that can be "seen", a person must be put into the categories of the other, categories that...reduce, finish, consummate" (1990:84)

As the author references the language of the other so too does the strength of the centralizing pull and momentum of these cultural forms.

The optimist may be able to see this process, of the author so realised and aligned, that this creates possibilities for hybridity - cross-cultural, cross-historical and across generations.

But what if the "cultural forms" in a given context are blinkered through a long history and operate more as constraining the cultural production of subjectivities? What do we say of anthing being lost? There is no "I" to speak of in terms of the Western Philosophical tradition, yet there does remain "an intimate self" - what of that? Can that not be socially realized - must the default be we consider it as chaotic (or any other word denoting unstructured and undeveloped)?