IDENTITY AND CONSTRUCTING THE OTHER: A THEORETICAL EXPLANATION

Authors

  • Tanaya Mohanty Dept. of Social Science Fakir Mohan University

Keywords:

Identity, Self, Other, Socialization

Abstract

This article is an attempt to understand the self-other model, which goes into the making of identity of an individual. Here, I have cited the work of four major thinkers like Mead, Cooley, Edward Said and Lacan to develop the idea of constructing a ‘self’ through the ‘other’. 

References

•Beauvoir, S. D. 1949. The second sex. New York: Vintage Books.

•Cooley. 1902. The Nature of Human Nature, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

•Klages Klage, Mary 2004, Jacques Lacan available at www.Colorado.edu/English/ENGL2092Klages/lacan.html

•Mead, G.H. (1934). Mind, Self and Society. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

•Richardson, M. 2001. Experiencing culture. London: Sage Publication

•Said, E. 1979. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.

•Spruiell, Vann 2004, Three Strands of Narcissism available at

•www.analysis.com/vs/vs75a.html

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Published

2015-03-30

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Vol. 4 No. 4 (2015): MARCH 2015

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