Experiencing Identity by Ian Craib

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By Ian Craib

`I suggest this publication to all readers drawn to pondering the self; i'm certain that anybody who reads it is going to come away with a few new principles' - healing groups This serious and finished exam of the relation of idea and id discusses definitions of identification in classical social concept, glossy social idea and psychoanalysis. The creation is a critique of present sociological debts of id, arguing that those are incurably cognitive, treating the folks that they examine as incapable of experiencing an inner lifestyles or inner area. The booklet then considers the consequences of this in social conception and human perform.

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At times he manifests an almost religious sense of wonder and mystery at this pre-reflective relation to the world, but at the same time there is a coherent argument. He develĀ­ ops his own position through a critique of the idea of a 'pure' language, and of the attempt to study language as if it were a system of clear denotations in order to escape 'the confused and annoying situation of a being who is what he is talking about' (1974b: 3). A 'pure' language would be one with an absolutely clear meaning, with no room for doubt or misinterpretation; such a language would also make it unnecessary to speak, since nothing could be said that was not already known.

One vital difference between Giddens and Merleau-Ponty is that the latter recognizes the limited use of language as a metaphor for social strucĀ­ tures, which possess a different, material ontological status. It is this struggle with rules which should provide the basis of social analysis and politics, and I want to follow through the way in which Merleau-Ponty develops these ideas in a critique of Marxism with which he had always had an ambivalent relationship. After World War II he and Sartre formed a short-lived political party aiming at French neutrality in the cold war.

Most structuralists read Saussure as showing that a scientific linguistics must eliminate the speaking subject and concentrate on the synchronic structure of language; for Merleau-Ponty, Saussure brings us back to the speaking subject and the inseparability of synchrony and diachrony. He argues that Saussure was the first to realize the peculiar nature of language as a structure that is gone beyond in each spoken sentence yet remains constant, the first to discover a structure of language that does not involve the assumption of clear denotation.

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