Research From the Heart: Chancing Labels and Exposing a Private Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany N. Lash
Keyword(s):  
Private Identity

Syphilis and Sociability

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Leigh Wetherall-Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Private Identity

This essay considers the stain on one’s position within civil society represented by venereal disease. Drawing on the diaries of Boswell – for whom regular doses of syphilis seem to have been regarded as an amatory hazard – and Neville, the essay explores the increasing prominence and importance of the sphere of sociable intercourse in the eighteenth century, which necessitates, for Boswell at least, a clear division between his private selfhood and conduct and his public demeanour. In contrast, Neville’s episodes of the pox seem to have exacerbated his incipient paranoia and annoyance with a world around him that refuses to acknowledge his gentlemanly qualities. Both men’s reaction to their condition as related through their diaries reveals for Leigh Wetherall-Dickson a shifting notion of private identity formed in response to the relatively new phenomenon of sociable intercourse.

scholarly journals Reading the Biopic through Persona: A Comparison between "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman"

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 10-30
Author(s):  
Hannah Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Private Individual ◽  
Private Identity

Personas are the public expressions of a private identity, the performance of personality in the social world. They are particularly visible and familiar in the world of celebrity, where entertainers regularly adopt an alter-ego for performance. This has intriguing consequences for biographical representations of performers. Biopic actors are obliged to duplicate the public-facing persona, which is an already-known, semi-fictional construction, and the private individual beneath. The narrative of the biopic must account for this relationship between the persona and the person who authors it. This article explores this process in two high-profile rock biopics, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019), comparing their different approaches to reproducing and exploring the persona of their subjects in performance, style and mise en scène.

Public and Private Identity: The Co-construction of Aphasia through Discourse

2011 ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Armstrong ◽  
Alison Ferguson ◽  
Lynne Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Identity

Rawls’ Liberal Right Hegelianism

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-146
Author(s):  
Todd Hedrick
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Private Identity

This chapter argues that Rawls is a vitally important theorist of reconciliation: he maintains that autonomy is a matter of coming to find that one’s needs and values are reflected in the laws citizens are subject to. It shows how A Theory of Justice employs an account of moral psychology to posit a relationship between individual and society that is actually more harmonious than what Hegel has in mind. It then demonstrates that, by abandoning crucial elements of this moral psychology, Rawls’ account of autonomy comes closer to Hegel’s idea of reconciliation, but by doing so, he is compelled to lean heavily on the publicity that law provides in order to make the prospect of mediation between private identity and the public conception of justice credible. As such, Rawls tends to have a one-sided, overly affirmative conception of social institutions as repositories of value and principle.

James Bond and the Art of Eating Eggs

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
elizabeth hale
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
British Society ◽  
Binding Agent ◽  
James Bond ◽  
Secret Service ◽  
Post War ◽  
Private Identity

James Bond eats a significant quantity of eggs in the Ian Fleming novels. In contrast to his popular, decadent image, the food consumption that provides Bond with a private identity is simple, everyday food, such as eggs, which underscore his qualities as an English Everyman, who shares the food habits of his post-war British audience, but does so with style and connoisseurship. Eggs possess further symbolic resonances for Bond's character. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, eggs underscore his essential solitary individuality, but also his potential to act as a binding agent on behalf of British society. In Thunderball, in their less than healthy aspects, eggs represent the lure of forbidden food, underscoring Bond's machismo as a lover of food and women.

Respect for a Victim's Privacy during Police Procedure

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Farajiha Ghazvini
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
The State ◽  
State Action ◽  
Concrete Quality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Freedom Of Action ◽  
Private Identity

Privacy has been an important element in the protection of civil liberties, used by religious and political dissenters to censor state action and maintain a sphere of freedom of action by restraining the powers of the state vis-à-vis the individual. Many countries expressly protect rights of privacy in their constitutions. However, there is a concrete quality about the concept of privacy not least in the language of everyday life which takes for granted personal, internal worlds. Our relationships with others rest on the recognition of those, and of our own private identity.

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