FILM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethnography, Rationality
8 Mar 2016
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Identity as a mode of self-differentiation/mode of positioning in the relation to others: if you are alone on the planet, your identity is not important (ex: the martian) Dialectic of stability and instability: identity allows you to belong to a certain group of people (stability, how accepted the group you identify with is in society (instability) It takes time for you to develop an identity (you are not born with an identity) Individual properties vs group properties : i think, therefore i am. , the only thing we know for sure is real is ourselves because we think, rationality and its discontent, interrogation. Constitution of personal identity: the specular (constituted by vision and acts of looking, which is by definition , the relational ) Identity or identification: identity as recruitment , identity as internalization. Ex: we are what our parents want us to be (for a time) We become who we are by forms of internalization.
