This weeks content tied concepts of difference and identity in with the concept of power. A new term we came across was Hegemony whereby dominant patriarchal discourses find themselves; encompassing the oppressive behaviours, power structures and arrangements by which power is guaranteed to stay in certain hands. The tutorial presentations opened my eyes to the power prejudice (which comes from a lack of knowledge) and racism on identity and society.
Lacan's theory was revisited also in relation to the 'other', as anyone recognised as not 'me'. It was discussed how the western male is able to identify as a unified self against the 'other' and that the other does not mean any inferiority or threat, nor signal that anyone else is foreign or primitive, yet recognises difference of beings. Human nature was described in a way I had previously not considered also, being a commonly convenient justification; as displayed in the following quote by Foucault "Discourse writes itself on our bodies".
Lacan's theory was revisited also in relation to the 'other', as anyone recognised as not 'me'. It was discussed how the western male is able to identify as a unified self against the 'other' and that the other does not mean any inferiority or threat, nor signal that anyone else is foreign or primitive, yet recognises difference of beings. Human nature was described in a way I had previously not considered also, being a commonly convenient justification; as displayed in the following quote by Foucault "Discourse writes itself on our bodies".
