"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are,
why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in
"Enigmas of Identity." Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that
we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or
even ourselves. Despite or because of that failure, we keep
searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it,
and inventing excuses for our unpersuasive stories about it. This
wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to
examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a
peculiarly modern preoccupation.
In particular, the book addresses the social, legal, and
personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and
selfhood in modern culture. Paying special attention to Rousseau,
Freud, and Proust, Brooks also looks at the intersection of
individual life stories with the law, and considers the creation of
an introspective project that culminates in psychoanalysis.
Elegant and provocative, "Enigmas of Identity" offers new
insights into the questions and clues about who we think we
are.
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