Identiteta

• Main Author: Biti, Vladimir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: Slovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost (Slovenian Comparative Literature Association) 2017
• Subjects: philosophy; epistemology; structuralism; identity; difference; literary theory; filozofija; spoznavna teorija; strukturalizem; identiteta; razlika; literarna teorija; phil; hisphilso; sami
• Online Access: https://ojs-gr.zrc-sazu.si/primerjalna_knjizevnost/article/view/5025

Čeprav so identiteto že v strukturalizmu izvajali iz razlike, so sami strukturalisti to razliko spet spreminjali v identiteto v obliki tim. binarnih opozicij. Zato se preučevanje pojma identiteta v tem članku odpira šele s tistimi teoretskimi smermi, za katere razlika ni več predmet, temveč pogoj možnosti spoznanja. Če svet imenujemo edino tako, da vanj uvajamo razliko, potem so vse identitete zasnovane na izključevanju, čeprav se skuša to na različne načine prikriti. Besedilo kaže različne posledice tega uvida za tvorbo nacionalne, politične in kulturne identitete. This paper is a critical reconstruction of arguments relating to one of the most topical questions of modern theory from psychoanalytical, deconstructionist, post-structuralist, feminist, post-colonial critiques, and the so-called “queer theory”. The fundamental thesis is that difference is a condition of the non-ability of identity, so its delimitation is at the same time both necessary and impossible. The problem is that we are faced with the creation of a certain identity, as a condition of existence of that which succumbs to identification, to the detriment of another identity from which, although unintentionally, the former removes the right to speech (and therefore existence). The compensation for an appropriated right, for example sexual, as recognized in demands for “the union of women”, necessarily removes some other identity, one, for instance which enables the existence of differences occurring within the same sex, such as differences in skin color, class, sexuality, and so on. It is this that in every achieved identity, be it personal, national, political or cultural, opens up the cave of deprived otherness and keeps the process of identification in constant movement.