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"The modern self is the product of this subjective turn, when the real self becomes internal (the mind in the English language; the soul in French, which has no word equivalent to mind), not some external thing embodied in robes of office or tools of a trade."

The parenthesis could have been avoided entirely because it is absurdly false. Luckily, that's irrelevant to the argument.

But no: the French language doesn't have to fallback to the soul by lack of a word for "mind". There is one.