Seminar 3 - Identity

IDENTITY & OTHER

Creation of identities 

Concepts of 'otherness' 

Analysis of visual example 

Identity : who we are & how others perceive who we are 

What makes you , you?

Facial features 

Personality

Culture

Nationality

General features

Social network

Physical attributes

Clothes , stereotypes

(Esstialist v Anti essentialist ) 

Fear 

Sense of humour

Skills & attributes 

Religion beliefs 

Background.

How do you express your identity?

Clothes 

Personality-loud

Humour 

How I interact with people

Tattoos - body modification

Lifestyle choice

Ethical identity

Conspicuous 

Consumption 

Job definition

Professional/vocation 

Emotional availability

Identity what ever you think you are has an effect on representation . Eg. We stereotype goths to were eyeliner ECT you wouldn't find someone with that identity working in a bank.

Circuit of culture - Stuart hall 

Culture is the framework  within which our identities are formed. Expressed and regulated.

IDENTITY FORMATION

• Process from psychoanalysis

• Jacques lacan

• The 'Hommelette'

• The 'Mirror Stage'

MIRROR STAGE 

Sense of self (subjectivity) Built on: 

• An illusion of wholeness , our identity is a series of attempts we understand who we are as people

• Receiving views from others you aren't hat you want to be unless other people recognise you are.

• Result = own subjectivity is fragile.

CONSTRUCTING THE 'OTHER'

• Problems: Relies on the assumption of opposition and radical otherness. In the same way that we create our own identities , in opposition to what we are not so does a society.

IDENTIFICATION

• Shores up unstable identites through the illusion of unity.

• Shared fashions , belief , systems values