Is consciousness fundamentally a process of preserving identity?

{(Contradiction ->) Expression -> Violence (a circular response to contradiction, violence diverts attention and causes forgetfulness) => Implicitly, there’s an image containing contradictions, which is explicit because one assumes themselves from an identity that still holds under such interpretation}

{(Expression ->) Contradiction -> Forget (a dialectical response to contradiction, without the violence) => Either there’s a lack of knowledge, or there’s a failure to think; i.e. attitude}