A tweet from Paula scrolled past the other day. She said, " That thing after you've finished having children when you realise you've got fave names left over... " This got me thinking - choosing a name for a child is a huge responsibility. But that is only just the beginning... Certain areas of our identity are structured through biological make-up and parentage, for example, race, ethnicity and gender, but the way in which we act can be used to control how we see ourselves and how others see us. Freud argued that our identity is formed and shaped in the subconscious using childhood experiences and our natural need to be pleasured and sated. Adapting these through the development of personality and desire is a way to control our identity as an adult. Society, in any form, is established by its structure and interaction and the translation of rules and regulations. We have to develop our identity and establish the presentation of ourselves to others...
... blogging my guts out