Identity

Paul du Gay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University Jessica Evans is Senior Lecturer in Cultural & Media Studies at the Open University.  Peter Redman has been teaching social science at The Open University for the last 25 years. During this time he has worked closely with numerous students helping them reflect on and improve their writing skills. He is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology.

`This ability to raise so many interesting themes and questions is precisely one of the strengths of this Reader. 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′ - Discourse & Society

• General Introduction - Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans and Peter RedmanPART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSEIntroduction - Peter RedmanWho Needs `Identity′? - Stuart HallIdeology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects - Louis AlthusserSubjectivity in Language - Emile BenvenisteThe Mirror Stage - Jacques LacanFeminine Sexuality - Jacqueline RoseRevolution in Poetic Language - Julia KristevaSuture - Kaja SilvermanThe Cinematic ModelDiff[ac]erance - Jacques DerridaInterrogating Identity - Homi K BhabhaThe Post Colonial PrerogativeDomain - Michel FoucaultCritically Queer - Judith ButlerPART TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RELATIONSIntroduction - Jessica EvansNotes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms - Melanie KleinMirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development - D W WinnicottTransitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena - D W WinnicottSocial Systems as a Defense against Anxiety - Isabel Menzies LythPsychoanalysis, Racism and Anti-Racism - Michael RustinThe Negro and Psychopathology - Frantz FanonThe Narcissistic Personality of Our Time - Christopher LaschThe Oedipal Riddle - Jessica BenjaminThe Trajectory of the Self - Anthony GiddensWhat′s Happening to Mourning? - Ian CraibPART THREE: IDENTITY/SOCIOLOGY/HISTORYIntroduction - Paul du GayHomo Clausus and the Civilizing Process - Norbert EliasThe Biographical Illusion - Pierre BourdieuA Note on `Status′ - T H MarshallIdentity, Genealogies, History - Nikolas RoseA Category of the Human Mind - Marcel MaussThe Notion of ′Person′; The Notion of ′Self′The Profession and Vocation of Politics - Max WeberIntroduction to `The Use of Pleasure′ - Michel FoucaultReflections on the Idea of the `Cultivation of the Self′ - Pierre HadotPersons and Personae - Am[gr]elie Okensberg Rorty