Identity

A Reader
First Edition
Paul du Gay - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Jessica Evans - The Open University
Peter Redman - The Open University
Published in Association With the Open University
Identity
December 2000 | 400 pages | Sage UK
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Description

Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation. The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology. The key statements are from the work of: Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques Dérrida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Lasch, Isabel Menzies, Lyth, T H Marshall, Marcel Mauss, Amèlie Okensberg Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, Nikolas Rose, Michael Rustin, Kaja Silverman, Max Weber, D W Winnicott

Contents

General Introduction

General Introduction

PART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE

  • Introduction
  • Who Needs `Identity'?
  • Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects
  • Subjectivity in Language
  • The Mirror Stage
  • Feminine Sexuality
  • Revolution in Poetic Language
  • Suture
  • The Cinematic Model
  • Diff[ac]erance
  • Interrogating Identity
  • The Post Colonial Prerogative
  • Domain
  • Critically Queer

PART TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RELATIONS

  • Introduction
  • Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms
  • Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development
  • Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
  • Social Systems as a Defense against Anxiety
  • Psychoanalysis, Racism and Anti-Racism
  • The Negro and Psychopathology
  • The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time
  • The Oedipal Riddle
  • The Trajectory of the Self
  • What's Happening to Mourning?

PART THREE: IDENTITY/SOCIOLOGY/HISTORY

  • Introduction
  • Homo Clausus and the Civilizing Process
  • The Biographical Illusion
  • A Note on `Status'
  • Identity, Genealogies, History
  • A Category of the Human Mind
  • The Notion of 'Person'; The Notion of 'Self'
  • The Profession and Vocation of Politics
  • Introduction to `The Use of Pleasure'
  • Reflections on the Idea of the `Cultivation of the Self'
  • Persons and Personae

Description

Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation. The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology. The key statements are from the work of: Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques Dérrida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Lasch, Isabel Menzies, Lyth, T H Marshall, Marcel Mauss, Amèlie Okensberg Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, Nikolas Rose, Michael Rustin, Kaja Silverman, Max Weber, D W Winnicott

Contents

General Introduction

General Introduction

PART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE

  • Introduction
  • Who Needs `Identity'?
  • Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects
  • Subjectivity in Language
  • The Mirror Stage
  • Feminine Sexuality
  • Revolution in Poetic Language
  • Suture
  • The Cinematic Model
  • Diff[ac]erance
  • Interrogating Identity
  • The Post Colonial Prerogative
  • Domain
  • Critically Queer

PART TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RELATIONS

  • Introduction
  • Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms
  • Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development
  • Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
  • Social Systems as a Defense against Anxiety
  • Psychoanalysis, Racism and Anti-Racism
  • The Negro and Psychopathology
  • The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time
  • The Oedipal Riddle
  • The Trajectory of the Self
  • What's Happening to Mourning?

PART THREE: IDENTITY/SOCIOLOGY/HISTORY

  • Introduction
  • Homo Clausus and the Civilizing Process
  • The Biographical Illusion
  • A Note on `Status'
  • Identity, Genealogies, History
  • A Category of the Human Mind
  • The Notion of 'Person'; The Notion of 'Self'
  • The Profession and Vocation of Politics
  • Introduction to `The Use of Pleasure'
  • Reflections on the Idea of the `Cultivation of the Self'
  • Persons and Personae

December 2000 | 400 pages | Sage UK

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Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation. The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology. The key statements are from the work of: Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques Dérrida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Lasch, Isabel Menzies, Lyth, T H Marshall, Marcel Mauss, Amèlie Okensberg Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, Nikolas Rose, Michael Rustin, Kaja Silverman, Max Weber, D W Winnicott

Table Of Contents:

  • General Introduction
  • PART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE
  • Introduction
  • Who Needs `Identity'?
  • Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects
  • Subjectivity in Language
  • The Mirror Stage
  • Feminine Sexuality
  • Revolution in Poetic Language
  • Suture
  • The Cinematic Model
  • Diff[ac]erance
  • Interrogating Identity
  • The Post Colonial Prerogative
  • Domain
  • Critically Queer
  • PART TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RELATIONS
  • Introduction
  • Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms
  • Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development
  • Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
  • Social Systems as a Defense against Anxiety
  • Psychoanalysis, Racism and Anti-Racism
  • The Negro and Psychopathology
  • The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time
  • The Oedipal Riddle
  • The Trajectory of the Self
  • What's Happening to Mourning?
  • PART THREE: IDENTITY/SOCIOLOGY/HISTORY
  • Introduction
  • Homo Clausus and the Civilizing Process
  • The Biographical Illusion
  • A Note on `Status'
  • Identity, Genealogies, History
  • A Category of the Human Mind
  • The Notion of 'Person'; The Notion of 'Self'
  • The Profession and Vocation of Politics
  • Introduction to `The Use of Pleasure'
  • Reflections on the Idea of the `Cultivation of the Self'
  • Persons and Personae

Recent Product Reviews:

this is a great resource for students to review and dip into gathering knowledge and discussion on the nature of identity in context
Mrs Imelda Hatton-Yeo, School of Public health & Clinical Sci, University of Central Lancashire
An excellent reader of key texts on Identity, but following a period of reflection I could not recommend it as a key text for my students within our current programme.
Mr Ian McGonagle, Faculty of Social Science, Lincoln University
The book is a great reader - but I found myself wishing there was more material outside the scope of psychoanalysis. I liked the psychoanalysis material, but the students were very keen to get to the last section of the book after spending much time on psychoanalytical material. The third year students also found the readings (esp Rose, Beneviste, etc) difficult. The addition of summaries and bullet points at the end of chapters would have helped them assimilate the material more easily.
Dr Derek Hook, Psychology Dept, Duquesne University
This book is an excellent source for a class on identity. I believe it is especially valuable for upper-level undergraduate courses or courses that are cross-listed between upper level undergraduates and graduate students.
Dr Edward Avery-Natale, Sociology Anthropology Dept, North Dakota State University
too peripheral to the aims of the course. This changed in development
Dr Andrew Whalley, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London

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