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FRACTURED IDENTITY:

Three different ways of conceptualising identity:

1. The enlightenment subject

‘The capacities of reason, consciousness, and action’ (Hall 1990, p.285).

.2. The sociological subject

‘Relation to significant others. bridging the gap between the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’’ (Giddens 1991, p.53).

3. The post-modern subject

‘Is historical not biologically defined’ (Hall 1990, p.285).

Furthermore, in this blog post, I will explore the fractured identity of Severus Snape a fictional character from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels. Throughout the Harry Potter series, we meet a very in-depth character Severus Snape, whom we despise in the beginning as he is portrayed as a cold-hearted villain. However, by the end of the series, we meet an entirely different Severus Snape. I believe the character Severus Snape fits in with the fractured Identity concept definition as he wears a false persona leading readers to believe that he is a bad person in contrast, he is probably the most loyal of all the characters of the Harry Potter series. Thus, meaning his identity is fractured as he had to uphold a false persona for years. Severus Snapes’ bridge to his ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ mentioned in the enlightenment subject is broken as he on the ‘outside’ is not who he is ‘inside’.

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Social Identity

Social identity is the personhood formed as a result of socialisation and acculturation processes (Barker, 2007, p. 222). Subjects draw upon accessible resources to express their social identity, such as social ascription or social groups (Tagg & Seargeant, 2016, p. 343). It is through these social markers that subjects learn the expectations and impressions that others have of them (Barker, 2007, p. 220). Andy Warhol blurred the lines between visual artist and celebrity. The artist affiliated himself with the high-class social groups of ‘ascribed’ celebrity and ‘achieved’ celebrity, heightening his own social status and increasing the commercial value of his commodified pop art pieces (Kerrigan et al., 2011, pp. 1512–1513).

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Overdetermination

    Overdetermination refers to the way that the unconscious mind rallies against our conscious selves and analyses feelings and situations too deeply. With this, we get create a situation that has been overthought and overdrawn, finding too much meaning in something small and trivial. Basically, overdetermination is every time you thought your English teacher was pulling meanings out of single words in Shakespeare plays. For me, I can find overdetermination present in my everyday life through my anxiety, which is highly present within my writing as each individual word that is placed onto a page is overthought and picked with excruciating precaution.

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Authenticity

Authenticity is one of those terms that have been thrown around for many years and have been vital for many jobs: from a journalist to and artist. Across my academic studies, I have encountered academics who have stated that their works are authentic and thus, original. There was a quote that I once read that said, being a Creative Writing major, that every good idea (in relation to writing) had already been written so everything else is appropriation. The authenticity, in regards to Moore’s article, acknowledged by artists outline “the artist speak truth of their own situation, that they speak of the situation of (absent) others and truth about their own culture” (Moore, 2002). as is obvious, the image above is authenticity as a mirror, framed to look the same without being a truthful representation.

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Essentialism is a notion created as a result of the enlightenment period, it is the view that every entity has a set of attributes that is necessary to its identity and function as a being. It is the ‘core’ or ‘soul’ of a person and relies on the idea of a “fixed essence of femininity, masculinity, Asians, teenagers and all other social categories.” (Barker.2012.pg221) Yasumasa Morimura seeks to explore and challenge social conventions and the ideas of fixed identity. He references within his work, his experiences as an Asian male in a western society and the stereotypes placed on him as a result of his gender, race, age and beliefs. 

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SUBJECTIVITY

SUBJECTIVITY - “THE condition of being a person and the processed by which we become a person; that is, how we are constituted as cultural subjects and how we experience ourselves.” (Barker 2012, p. 220) In this, Barker states that our upbringing; where we grew up, when we grew up affects us at our deepest level. My upbringing will be completely different to someone else’s, no matter how similar our lives are, therefore effecting the way I enjoy things and identify with them. Just because I like a movie, artwork, doesn’t mean you have to like it as well. “Art is subjective.”  - Mat Wall-Smith, 2017

(Call Me By Your Name, 2017, Dir. Luca Guadagnino)

(Mother! 2017, Dir. Darren Aronofsky)

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REFERENCE LIST

ANIMATIONS:

Xaviera López, 2016,  <http://xavieralopez.com/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/1132-2/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/skin/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/mirror/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/zoop/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/shampoo/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/ex-ovo-omnia/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/spider-flow/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/inhale-exhale-repeat/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/the-triangle/>

- <http://xavieralopez.com/the-dream/>

DEFINITIONS:

o  Barker, c 2007, ‘Issues of Subjectivity and Identity’, in Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition, Sage publications, London, pp. 218-223

o   Bennet, A & Royle, N 2016, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory, 5th edition, Routledge, New York.

o   Brooks, P 2001, Troubling confessions: speaking guilt in law and literature, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

o   Eagleton, T 2008, Literary theory: an introduction, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

o   Freud, S 1974, ‘Creative Writers and Daydreaming’, Standard edition of the Complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud: IV, trans. J Strachey, Hogarth Press, London.

o   Freud, S 2004, Civilization and its discontents, Penguin Books, London.

o   Freud, S 2016 ‘The uncanny’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, <hep://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf>.

o   Fricke, J 1994, ‘Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone interview: success doesn't suck’, Rolling stone, viewed 5 August 2016,

<hDp://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobain-the-rolling-stone-interview-19940127>.

o   Hall, S, Held, D, Hubert, D, Thompson, K 1996, Modernity: an introduction to modern societies, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.

o   Howes, David 2005, ‘Skinscapes: embodiment, culture and environment’ in Classen, Constance The book of touch, Berg, Oxford, pp. 27-39

o   Mansfield, N 2000, Subjectivity: theories of the self from Freud to Harraway, New York University Press, New York.

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Referencing

Tagg, C & Seargeant, PA 2016, ‘Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network’, in A Georgeakopoulos & T Spilio' (eds), The Routledge handbook of language and digital communication, Routledge, New York, pp. 342-347.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MessYourself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifted_Hands:_The_Ben_Carson_Story

Mansfield, N 2000, ‘Freud and the split subject’ in Subjectivity: theories of the self from Frued to Haraway, New York University Press, New York, pp. 25-40 

http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2005/05/gelman.aspx 

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/unconscious

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/unconscious

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-israel/what-is-authenticity_b_10327880.html

http://www.thoughtsonlifeandlove.com/fractured-identities/

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INTRODUCTION

I am a 19 y/o 1st-year University student: studying a Bachelor of Creative Arts, Major: Creative writing. also studying a Diploma in Social Media Marketing. This Tumblr blog is an assessment of Critical Frameworks in Creative Practice. (CACS102).

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Fractured Identity

Fractured identity occurs as a result of the condition of subjectivity which renders individuals vulnerable to shifting internal and external forces. Therefore, a single concrete identity nor complete autonomy can be maintained (Bennett & Royle, 2016, p. 151). A subject is fragmented into multiple identities which may be inconsistent with one another (Hall et al. 1996, p. 598). Jason Wing’s installation In Between Two Worlds (2012) explores the artist’s bicultural identity. Indigenous Australian symbolism represents the Biripi people and Chinese symbolism refers to his Cantonese background (Adelaide Eastern Courier, 29 September 2010, p. 33). The artist converges these identities by stating that he is “100% Chinese, 100% Aboriginal, 100% Australian” all at once (Wing cited in Ang, 2017, p. 345).

Jason Wing, In Between Two Worlds, 2012

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CREATIVE IDENTITY

An individuals creativity identity is not only how you present yourself, but the manner is which you create. It is true that ‘few studies have focused on the complexities and contradictions that face creatives in their professional role’ (C. Hackley & A.J. Kover 2015). As the creative arts industry continues to grow, individual identities become vital not only to businesses but to the uniqueness of art. Seeing myself as a creative practitioner in visual arts and graphic design, I stay true to what inspires me most. Most of my influences come from nature and the experiences that have defined me. Creating under this force ensures my creative identity will remain true.

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Sensory Knowledge

 Sensory knowledge refers to the information we gain we gain from our bodies external senses. We rely on our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste and scent – to gain and relay knowledge that we couldn’t necessarily pick up or give from verbal communication. Even though we are born with these senses to help us act within our environment, our cultural backgrounds impact the efficiency of these senses immensely. The way we process our information and our differentiating views and perceptions are influenced by our various social backgrounds, and therefore create our different senses.

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Subjectivity

Above Image: ‘The Photography as Contemporary Art’ Melinda Gibson 2004

Subjectivity is ‘the condition in which a subject assumes different identities at particular stages due to factors which are not unified around a coherent self’, (Hall, et al., 1996).

(Hall, et al., 1996) elaborates as to how these contradictory identities pull us in different directions; we become interchangeable beings, affected by our biological, ethnic and intimate experiences.

This photograph series, by Gibson explores the interchangeable nature subjectivity inflicts on us. The mixture of photographs and media signifies our contradictory identity’s and the versatility they encompass. From our relationships, past and present, the effect of fragmentation from social and technological subjection, results in forever reinventing identities comprised of unusual senses of self.

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The notion of the unconscious is was first referenced in Freud’s psychoanalytical theory of personality. It is described as being a facet of the mind in which thought, urges and memories, usually of an unpleasant or unacceptable manner, are stored outside of our conscious field. Salvador Dali’s ‘The Lugubrious Game’ (1929) is one of a series of works referencing Freud’s Oedipus Complex, which Dali felt related heavily to his own life. It depicts the ideas of masturbation, Dali’s sexual fears and fixations (including a sexual desire for his mother) and the consequences of masturbation (the imagery of which can be viewed through Freud’s dream analysis to be a reference to castration by his father).   

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ESSENTIALISM

ESSENTIALISM – THIS is the thought that every single person has a fixed ‘essence’; something that makes them, them which is a constant, unmovable variable, “… femininity, masculinity, Asians, teenagers and all other social categories” (Barker, 2012, p. 222) This word often goes hand-in-hand with ‘identity’. Although this is predetermined, you take this with you wherever you go, you can often project your essence into your creative work. You can oftentimes tell when films are directed by the same person as they have a ‘feel’ or ‘spirit’; this is the director leaving their own ‘water mark’ on their work.

(Crimson Peak, 2015, Dir. Guillermo del Toro)

(The Shape of Water, 2017, Dir. Guillermo del Toro)