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Enigmas of identity [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Brooks



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Autore: Brooks Peter <1938-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Enigmas of identity [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Brooks Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2011
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina: 305
Soggetto topico: Group identity
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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 because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it, and inventing excuses for our unpersuasive stories about it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. In particular, the book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Paying special attention to Rousseau, Freud, and Proust, Brooks also looks at the intersection of individual life stories with the law, and considers the creation of an introspective project that culminates in psychoanalysis. Elegant and provocative, Enigmas of Identity offers new insights into the questions and clues about who we think we are.
Titolo autorizzato: Enigmas of identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-22744-4
9786613227447
1-4008-3969-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457026203321
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