Task: Determine the appropriate ordinal class for the sentence, reflecting the mental state of the writer through various degrees of positive and negative sentiment intensity. 2: very positive, 1: positive, 0: neutral, -1: negative, -2: very negative.
Sentence: it 's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self .
Intensity class: 