Identity Seminar

Identity Seminar


When both have no concept of self?
Lacan calls this Hommlette - no sense of unifying.

Mirror Stage
6-18 months - understanding you are whole. If you cry someone comes to help you.
Realisation - get the idea that you are an object in the world.

Lacan - Always chasing & affirming our own sense of self & trying to get back to the 'mirror stage'.

Sense of Self (Subjectivity) built on:

• An illusion of wholeness - can be destroyed built up on fiction.
• Receiving views from others - taught that to measure need to see affirmation.

RESULT - Own subjectivity is fragile

Identity & 'The other' is visual representation.

• Creation of Identities - securing identitys for ourselves.
• Concepts of otherness
• Analysis of visual examples.

Identity Creation
What makes you you?

• Education/Job
• Style/Clothing
• Upbringing/Parents/Family
• Ethics
• Friends/Social Groups
• Physical Attributes
• Fears
• Sense of Humor
• Skills/Ability
• Religion/Beliefs
• Background (Limits)
• Gender
• Sexuality

How do you express your identity?

• Clothes
• Lifestyle Choices
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Body (Physical Appearance)
• Job (Profession/Vocation)
• Emotion Avaliability
• Social Networking
• Reality Vs Projected Identity

Constructing & 'The Others'

• Relies on assumption of opposition & radical otherness.
• Create our identities within mothering.
• About security unstable identity
• Subterranean Values - Shared fashion, values.
• Racism - Inform ourselves that we are superior to other races.

Examples of Othering
How we read identify identities to other society - with aim of reaching core audiences.