Enigmas of identity

Enigmas of identity

"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Peter, 1938- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2011.
Edition:Course Book
Subjects:
Group identity.
Beethoven.
Enlightenment.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Marcel Proust.
Matisse.
Renaissance.
Sigmund Freud.
Stendhal.
autoeroticism.
cities.
crime.
culture.
derealization.
disciplined reproduction.
disguise.
double agent.
egotism.
fingerprinting.
fingerprints.
identificatory paradigm.
identity paradigm.
identity.
impostor.
imposture.
individual identity.
individualism.
introspection.
inviolate personality.
late style.
life stories.
masturbation.
misprision.
modern culture.
modern identity.
modern nation-state.
modern societies.
modernity.
narcissism.
nascent capitalism.
necessity.
personal identity.
privacy.
private identity.
proteanism.
psychoanalysis.
retrospective narrator.
searches.
seizures.
self dissolution.
self dramatization.
self estrangement.
self-dissolution.
self-love.
self-obsession.
self-reflexiveness.
self-reinvention.
self.
selfhood.
sexuality.
solipsism.
spy.
urbanism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798136806719
Table of Contents:
  • Marks of identity
  • Egotisms
  • The "outcast of the universe"?
  • Discovering the self in self-pleasuring
  • "Inevitable discovery" : searches, narrative, identity
  • The derealization of self
  • The madness of art
  • Epilogue : the identity paradigm.

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