Michel Foucault
2/17/2013
Identity theory: Focus = Discourse His view is that history is a series of fictions and what is interesting is not what happened so much as how people were brought to think what happened. If history is like that then the present must be like that too for it is only the present for a fleeting moment as it strives to become history itself. How, then, can we have a theory to explain reality when there is no fixed reality?
He stated that people do not have ‘real’ identity within themselves; that’s just a way of talking about the self – a discourse. External discourses are imposed and affect people’s internal discourse. An ‘identity’ is communicated to others in your interactions with them, but this is not a fixed thing within a person. It is a shifting, temporary construction. Comments are closed.
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