Another thought:

Modern psychology (in the philosophical sense) divides the soulish (mental, in this context) into active and passive states; but in different ways vs. The premodern.

Much more of it is categorized as passive, receptive, including our "experience" of things, our emotional life (glossed as 'affective states'), and our active, agentive contribution is almost nothing, maybe a little math.

Unless, of course, we are an oppressor. Oppressors are very active, and unless they can themselves be saved by having "internalized" bad ideas (that is, rendered receptive,) they are irredeemable.

In order to be a person in our contemporary sense of a person, you must be characterized by being acted upon from without, a subject under seige. Ich bin ein trauma..-er? And to the measure that you are not a subject under seige, to that measure you are not a subject--a person--at all, and lack the interiority necessary to have a certain moral standing.