Incognito Ergo Sum
Language, Memory and the Subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2351702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Sayer (0009-0000-8056-6810, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 67-89 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276404047416 |
| OpenAlex | W2097460705 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 11 |
Drawing upon a range of theorists (Derrida, Lacan, Barthes), photographers (Adams, Weston, Lange) and literary texts (Baudelaire, Proust, Breton, Camus, Barnes, Kundera), this article explores the role of memory in grounding identity. If the subject is constituted in language, it is argued, identity can be achieved only in the realm of the imaginary, through fixation in an imago of the self. It is memory above all that gives this being-in-denial its imagined solidity; but that solidity is an effect of language's ability to create verisimilitude in an eternal present of signification, and not of memory's relation to a real past. Identity therefore always remains precarious, because the signifiers that furnish the points de capiton of what we remember always also defer elsewhere
Aesthetics · Art · Denial · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Relation (database · Subject (documents · The Imaginary · Verisimilitude · Central European national history · Computer Science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |