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Ryo TATSUMI
Department Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Languages , Department of English Studies for Careers Position Assistant Professor-lecturer |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2016/03 |
| Type | Academic Paper |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | Media Practices and Identity: through perspectives of Lacanian Subject |
| Contribution Type | Single author |
| Journal | Japanology |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | International Research Institute for Studies in Language and Peace |
| Details | The recent global situation has raised controversial questions about identities which seem to
be an urgent matter. This paper attempts to analyze the process of producing identity through the conception of Lacanian subject and Stuart Hall’s theory in order to understand what difficulty of identities is. We create our identities through the Other within our practices. Indeed, identities are produced through, not outside, difference. That is because identities are the consequence of communication to others, and this is the process of producing identity. Children identifying with their parents, Women identifying with an actress in soap operas, citizens identifying with their president. Our lives and identities depend upon these processes. This approach of identities is hard to understand, but to put it simply, identities are practices how we adapt ourselves to societies or circumstances or discourses of which have been already composed. |