About a Different Identity

Margarita Alonso
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Chapter 1 in Best Inclusion Practices, 2013, pp 3-23 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When the Belgian surrealist artist Magritte (1898–1967) created his work ‘La Trahison des images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe)’,1 he questioned the artistic-realist representation of objects. The painted pipe is a reference to something, but it is not the object itself. It is, rather, an idealized, somewhat basic, and incomplete image. The same question arises when a human being creates an image of himself or herself. It is obvious that this image will always be subjective and incomplete in relation to a global reality. It can serve as a practical reference, as a useful basis for ordering concepts. The problem is that we often forget that this concept is stereotyped and partially defined, and we accept it as a sole, objective reference, which implies that everything that does not fit precisely into this definition tends to remain outside with regard to that person’s idea.

Keywords: Sexual Orientation; Gender Identity; LGBT Community; Incomplete Image; Enduring Attraction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137033949_1

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