• the view that categories of people, such as women and men, or heterosexuals and homosexuals, or members of ethnic groups, have intrinsically different and characteristic natures or dispositions.
Identity and 'the other' in visual representation
- creation of identities
- concepts of 'otherness'
- analysis of visual example
Identity- who we are and how others perceive who we are
What makes you, you?
- Personality
- Culture
- Nationality
- General features
- Interests
- Personal attributes
- DNA
- Clothes
- Essentialist V Anti-Essentialist
- Fear
- Sense of humour
- Skills/Ability
- Religion Beliefs
- Background
- Gender
- Sexuality
How do you express your identity
- Clothes
- mannerisms
- Lifestyle choices
- Conspicuos consumption
- Physical appearance/ Body modification
- Job
- Profession/ vocation
- Emotional availability
- Social networking
- Reality V projected identity
The 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'
When you are born you have no concept of self 'hommelette'
The Mirror Stage is the key point of your understanding of realisation of self-being.
Actuality of what were are is never the ideal.
Sense of self (subjectivity) built on:
- an illusion of wholeness
- receiving views from others
RESULT= own subjectivity is fragile
Constructing the 'Other'
- Problems: relies on the assumption of opposition and radical otherness
Identification
-Shores up unstable identities through the illusion of unity
- shared fashions, belief system, values
subterranean values ( Matza, 1961)
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