Is there a difference between the concept of self and the actual self?

It is clear that there is a difference between the self and how we perceive the self. But is there a difference between the self we perceive and the self we conceptualize? Also, Is there a difference between the self we perceive to be now, and the self we perceive to have been in the past?<br><br>Here is the example that made me think of this: I was at a funeral viewing and I saw my grandmother's dead body. I thought "this is her body now". But the self that I perceive is not the self I conceptualize. I don't consider the dead body my grandmother, it is just a shell of what she once was. But, I still consider a picture of her when she was alive my grandmother, even though we don't look the same. <br><br><br><br>Edit: I'm not talking about personal identity; what makes a person the same over time. I am just talking about people's view of their *own* identity.