Enigmas of identity [electronic resource] / Peter Brooks.
Brooks, Peter, 1938-
2011
HM753 .B76 2011eb
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Title Enigmas of identity [electronic resource] / Peter Brooks.
Author Brooks, Peter, 1938-
ISBN 9781400839698 (electronic bk.)
9780691151588
Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (226 p.)
Call Number HM753 .B76 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305
Summary 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.
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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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