The self emerging from chapters 2 and 3 is constitutively open to the world. Such a self is faced with questions of faith and distrust in its relation to the world, in its relation to others and itself. Such faith is robust, but is vulnerable to surprise and trauma, while rooted in hope in the goodness and beauty of the world and in love, as desire and as acceptance. Such faith begins with itself, the very notion of the self. The self in relation to itself and its inherent vulnerabilities is explored in terms of sense experience, linguistic expression and testimony of self and others. The duplicitous nature of the self is uncovered in this respect: the self is doubled between inner and outer and this doubleness is manifest in its capacity to lie and deceive. The latter themes are explored through a reading of the fourth tale of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.