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Experiencing Identity
- Ian Craib - University of Essex, UK
July 1998 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`I recommend this book to all readers interested in thinking about the self; I am sure that anyone who reads it will come away with some new ideas' - Therapeutic Communities
This critical and comprehensive examination of the relation of theory and identity discusses definitions of identity in classical social theory, modern social theory and psychoanalysis.
The introduction is a critique of existing sociological accounts of identity, arguing that these are incurably cognitive, treating the people that they study as incapable of experiencing an internal life or internal space. The book then considers the implications of this in social theory and human practice.
Introduction
PART ONE: IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE AND POLITICS
Lukacs
The Politics of Experience
Psychoanalysis, Experience and Politics
PART TWO: IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Back to Utopia
Goffman
Masculinity and Male Dominance
The Sociology of the Emotions
Sociological Literature and Literary Sociology
PART THREE: IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Freud and Philosophy
The Psychodynamics of Theory
What's Happening to Mourning?
Conclusion
`I recommend this book to all readers interested in thinking about the self; I am sure that anyone who reads it will come away with some new ideas' - Therapeutic Communities
