The money quote from a very thought provoking piece in the New York Review:

The personal essay’s historical and aesthetic function has been to persuade us not just that personhood is beautiful or good, but that it is primordial—that individual subjectivity and its expression exist prior to the social formations that gave rise to it. This is a lie, the lie that subtends bourgeois individualism and all its intrusions into language, art, and education…. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/03/the-illusion-of-the-first-person-merve-emre/