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Stepping into the River of Personhood
Hacking’s book Rewriting the Soul is an example of what I think philosophy has finally managed to accomplish in modern times: reconciling empirical science with pure thought. It’s like breath of fresh air. He uses the case studies of people with dissociative identity disorder to discuss what it means “to be a person”, among other things. His […] Continue reading →
The History of Identity
Fanon: What is culture? Foucault: What is sexuality? Hacking: What is identity? I haven’t finished reading all of Hacking’s book, but what did strike me so far is his apparent question (above) throughout the book. What is identity; do we have one? What … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Is it the soul?
When I read anything, I know that theres a gist to the whole thing that takes prevalence over other ideas that are briefly mentioned within the text. That obviously relates back to the text we read during the last week. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Hacking
another book that i enjoy! In seminar today we talked about multiple personality disorder, or which is now renamed as “dissociative identity disorder” and that really sparked my interest because I love psychology and studying it and learning how so many cases diagnosed under the same case can vary tremendously. I find it amazing how […] Continue reading →
Hacking re-wrote my perception of memory
This has got to be one of the most interesting books we have read so far this year. Ok, let me re-phrase that: after Jill’s superb lecture that helped me to actually understand “what” exactly I was reading, I then … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Hacking and Freud
I would first like to say that this book, although long, is quite interesting. I really felt like I was intrigued by it, and the idea of multiple personalities is quite fascinating. I never would have made the connection between … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The idea of the repressive hypothesis within a discourse – enjoy!
The idea of the repressive hypothesis in Foucault’s History of Sexuality finds its crucial formula in what Foucault would call a notion of silence. Foucault calls silence “the absolute limit of discourse (page 27)” and characterizes silence as a discretion … Continue reading →
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The idea of the repressive hypothesis within a discourse – Enjoy!
The idea of the repressive hypothesis in Foucault’s History of Sexuality finds its crucial formula in what Foucault would call a notion of silence. Foucault calls silence “the absolute limit of discourse (page 27)” and characterizes silence as a discretion … Continue reading →
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Cecilia in Arts one 2014-02-05 21:34:39
In The History of Sexuality, Foucault focuses his discussion in the beginning chapters on the specification of individuals. This is interesting to me because Foucault makes it clear that individuals are brought and placed into categories and these categories become a part of their identity. In the book, Foucault gives an example and says “the […]
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some thoughts upon “category”
In The History of Sexuality, Foucault focuses his discussion in the beginning chapters on the specification of individuals. This is interesting to me because Foucault makes it clear that individuals are brought and placed into categories and these categories become a part of their identity. In the book, Foucault gives an example and says “the […]Continue reading →
