Identity : a reader / edited by Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, and Peter Redman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General introduction / Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans and Peter Redman -- Part I: The subject of language, ideology and discourse -- Introduction / Peter Redman -- Who needs "identity"? / Stuart Hall -- Ideology interpellates individuals as subjects / Louis Althusser -- Subjectivity in language / Emile Benveniste -- The mirror stage / Jaques Lacan -- Feminine sexuality / Jaqueline Rose -- Revolution in poetic language / Julia Kristeva -- Suture: the cinematic model / Kaja Silverman -- Différance / Jaques Derrida -- Interrogating identity: the post colonial prerogative / Homi K. Bhabha -- Domain / Michel Foucault -- Critically queer / Judith Butler -- Part II: Psychoanalysis and psychosocial relations -- Introduction / Jessica Evans -- Notes on some schizoid mechanisms / Melanie Klein -- Mirror-role of mother and family in child development / D.W. Winnicott -- Transitional objects and transitional phenomena / D.W. Winnicott -- Social systems as a defense against anxiety / Isabel Menzies Lyth -- Psychoanalysis, racism and anti-racism / Michael Rustin -- The negro and psychopathology / Frantz Fanon -- The narcissistic personality of our time / Christopher Lasch -- The oedipal riddle / Jessica Benjamin -- The trajectory of the self / Anthony Giddens -- What's happening to mourning? / Ian Craib -- Part III: Identity, sociology, history -- Introduction / Paul du Gay -- Homo clausus and the civilizing process / Norbert Elias -- The biographical illusion / Pierre Bourdieu -- A note on "status" / T.H. Marshall -- Identity, genealogy, history / Nikolas Rose -- A category of the human mind: the notion of "person"; the notion of "self" / Marcel Mauss -- The profession and vocation of politics / Max Weber -- Introduction to "The use of pleasure" / Michel Foucault -- Reflections on the idea of "the cultivation of the self" / Pierre Hadot -- Persons and personae / Amélie Okensberg Rorty.