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Corrine- Week 9 Questions

 Hi everyone! I apologize for my late post; coming back from spring break has been almost more jarring than ever, and it completely slipped my mind last night...

I have been thinking through a lot of the work Hall does in "Who Needs Identity?" He wraps up his essay with the following: "...the question, and the theorization, of identity is a matter of considerable political significance, and is only likely to be advanced when both the necessity and the 'impossibility' of identities, and the suturing of the psychic and the discursive in their constitution, are fully and unambiguously acknowledged" (16). I am struggling to understand what exactly this means for us: how can we "fully and unambiguously acknowledge" this suturing of the psychic and discursive? How does the notion of "difference" or "lack" play a role in this suturing and subsequent acknowledgement?

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