Identity: A Reader

by Paul du Gay (Editor), Jessica Evans (Editor), Peter Redman (Editor)

Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context.

Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

400 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2000

Reviews

[Cathay Wong · Rating 4 out of 5]

quite comprehensive

[nsgna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book works well as a handbook of identity. Conceived from -as the editors put it- the 'subject-of-language approach', it represents an interesting collection of contributions to the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective.