Identity: The d&ad

I've decided to start using these blog pages to continue the more formal research methods of the MA and the 'Lunderbach' pages will form the basis of my professional practice. I may well end up merging both sides but will use this blog to begin my write ups.

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Notes from Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World, Madan Sarup, Edinburgh University Press.

'There are talks and discussions on the meanings of home and place, displacement, migrations and Diasporas. Distinctions are made between immigrants, economic migrants, refugees and exiles. There is also a great deal of interest in the self, subjectivity, and in recent developments in the theory of the subject. how does one represent oneself? There is talk about different personalities. identity can be displaced: it can be hybrid or multiple. It can be constituted through community: family, region, the nation state...'pp1.

'While writing I often think of home. it is usually assumed that a sense of place, or belonging, gives a person stability. But what makes a place home? Is it wherever your family is, where you have been brought up? The children of many migrants not sure where they belong. where is home? Is it where your parents are buried? Is home the place from where you have been displaced or where you are now? Is home where your mother lives? And, then, we speak of 'home from home'. I am moved by the phenomenological question 'Are you at home in the world?'...pp1/2

'But what are we to make of homesickness? In Freud's fascinating essay 'The Uncanny', he remarks that the fantasy of being buried alive induces the feeling of uncanny strangeness, accompanied by a certain lasciviousness - the fantasy, I mean of intra-uterine existence'. He continues: 'It often happens that neurotic men declare that they feel there is something uncanny about the female genital organs. This unheimliche place, however, is the entrance to the former Heim of all human beings, to the place where each one of us lived once upon a time and in the beginning. there is a joke saying that 'Love is homesickness'. (1). pp2/3