{"product_id":"identity-9780761969167","title":"Identity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdentity \u003c\/b\u003eprovides 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Identity Reader\u003c\/b\u003e will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe key statements are from the work of:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre  Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques D[ac]errida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie Klei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e`This ability to raise so many interesting themes and questions is precisely one of the strengths of this \u003cb\u003eReader\u003c\/b\u003e. Another is a choice of contributions based on an historical perspective that enables us to trace some of the main threads in the debate over identity in a variety of disciplines in the last fifty years. In conclusion: an invaluable tool for scholars in the field′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscourse \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" ‘Identity’ is one of the most overused but least considered terms  in the lexicon of the contemporary humanities and social sciences. This volume brings together many of the key texts that will contribute to a more thoughtful understanding of the many issues involved in this elusive and deceptively difficult concept. The editors are not merely innocent anthologisers, however. They bring a sharp critical eye and a polemical editorial line to their task.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Donald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction - Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans and Peter Redman PART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE Introduction - Peter Redman Who Needs `Identity′? - Stuart Hall Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects - Louis Althusser Subjectivity in Language - Emile Benveniste The Mirror Stage - Jacques Lacan Feminine Sexuality - Jacqueline Rose Revolution in Poetic Language - Julia Kristeva Suture - Kaja Silverman    The Cinematic Model Diff[ac]erance  - Jacques Derrida Interrogating Identity - Homi K Bhabha    The Post Colonial Prerogative Domain - Michel Foucault Critically Queer - Judith Butler PART TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RELATIONS Introduction - Jessica Evans Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms - Melanie Klein Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development - D W Winnicott Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena - D W Winnicott Social Systems as a Defense against Anxiety - Isabel Menzies Lyth Psychoanalysis, Racism and Anti-Racism - Michael Rustin The Negro and Psychopathology - Frantz Fanon The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time - Christopher Lasch The Oedipal Riddle - Jessica Benjamin The Trajectory of the Self - Anthony Giddens What′s Happening to Mourning? - Ian Craib PART THREE: IDENTITY\/SOCIOLOGY\/HISTORY Introduction - Paul du Gay Homo Clausus and the Civilizing Process - Norbert Elias The Biographical Illusion - Pierre Bourdieu A Note on `Status′ - T H Marshall Identity, Genealogies, History - Nikolas Rose A Category of the Human Mind - Marcel Mauss    The Notion of ′Person′; The Notion of ′Self′ The Profession and Vocation of Politics - Max Weber Introduction to `The Use of Pleasure′  - Michel Foucault Reflections on the Idea of the `Cultivation of the Self′ - Pierre Hadot Persons and Personae - Am[gr]elie Okensberg Rorty","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737184416087,"sku":"9780761969167","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761969167.jpg?v=1723811036","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/identity-9780761969167","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}