Identity

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'Identity' is both a simple 'me' and a much, much deeper philosophical topic. These are a few pages on this impenetrable subject done during a university course.

• Identity is...: More than is often thought.
• Death and identity: Where does identity go when we die?
• Ethnicity and identity: Ethnicity can have a significant effect on who you think you are.
• Feminism and identity: When does gender identity start?
• Foucault and identity: The philosopher's view.
• A history of the self: Identity through the ages.
• Individual and society: How are selves made in social groups?
• Institutionalization: Institutions may be strip and remake the self.
• Jung's Archetypes: Shadow, Anima/us, Self.
• Legal identity: The law has a very different view on the term.
• Life histories: A thread through time that may or may not make sense.
• Masks: Faces we wear on the outside.
• Movies and identity: Why do we like movies? How do they take us in?
• Other: Who is not the subject so creates the subject.
• Personal name: You are your name.
• Queer theory: Destabilizing positions of gender and sexual preference.
• Subject: We get called into subject positions.
• Suture: Stitching the subject into position.

See also

Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, Emile Benveniste

Need for a sense of identity, Theories about how we think about ourselves

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