Table of Contents

General 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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

`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

" ‘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."
*James Donald*