Identity

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'Identity' is both a simple 'me' and a much, much deeper philosophical topic. These are a few pages on this impenetrable subject done during a university course.

Identity is...: More than is often thought.
Death and identity: Where does identity go when we die?
Ethnicity and identity: Ethnicity can have a significant effect on who you think you are.
Feminism and Identity: When does gender identity start?
Foucault and Identity: The philosopher's view.
A history of the self: Identity through the ages.
Individual and society: How are selves made in social groups?
Institutionalization: Institutions may be strip and remake the self.
Jung's Archetypes: Shadow, Anima/us, Self.
Legal Identity: The law has a very different view on the term.
Life Histories: A thread through time that may or may not make sense.
Masks: Faces we wear on the outside.
Movies and Identity: Why do we like movies? How do they take us in?
Other: Who is not the subject so creates the subject.
Personal Name: You are your name.
Queer Theory: Destabilizing positions of gender and sexual preference.
Subject: We get called into subject positions.
Suture: Stitching the subject into position.