Identity: A Reader Book

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	General introduction	1
Pt. I	The subject of language, ideology and discourse	7
	Introduction	9
1	Who needs 'identity'?	15
2	Ideology interpellates individuals as subjects	31
3	Subjectivity in language	39
4	The mirror stage	44
5	Feminine sexuality	51
6	Revolution in poetic language	69
7	Suture: the cinematic model	76
8	Differance	87
9	Interrogating identity: The Post Colonial Prerogative	94
10	Domain	102
11	Critically queer	108
Pt. II	Psychoanalysis and psychosocial relations	119
	Introduction	121
12	Notes on some schizoid mechanisms	130
13	Mirror-role of mother and family in child development	144
14	Transitional objects and transitional phenomena	150
15	Social systems as a defense against anxiety	163
16	Psychoanalysis, racism and anti-racism	183
17	The negro and psychopathology	202
18	The narcissistic personality of our time	222
19	The oedipal riddle	231
20	The trajectory of the self	248
21	What's happening to mourning?	267
Pt. III	Identity, sociology, history	277
	Introduction	279
22	Homo clausus and the civilizing process	284
23	The biographical illusion	297
24	A note on 'status'	304
25	Identity, Genealogy, History	311
26	A category of the human mind: the notion of 'person'; the notion of 'self'	325
27	The profession and vocation of politics	346
28	Introduction to 'The use of Pleasure'	360
29	Reflections on the idea of 'the cultivation of the self'	371
30	Persons and personae	378
	Index	381