IF I AM Me what creates the ME???

According to Hall both the philosophical and the psychological approach to identity allow the modern person to divulge in the identity of the individual as some one who interacts with surroundings but is ultimately unaffected by it. I think that I would have to agree that most people think on some level that they do have a “false self” that they interact with on the external as a form of presentation and that there is their “true self” which is internal and usually only experienced by those closest to them. However, as Hall points out with Freud, the conscious or ID (False self) is constantly interacting or filtering the unconscious EGO (True self) i think i may have mixed up the id and the ego to form that presentable self. So knowing this one would have to wonder what is the filter made of? I would suggest what Marx and Jameson say the controlling social norms i.e. history, that actually move one to assimilate and consume in mass quantities hegemony.

And if historically society is always trying to create a hegemonic identity of itself in relation to not being something of “otherness” then it creates other social identities for the “other” that does not fit into the norm. Thus a single identity with in the splintering of a Postmodern culture is dictated and influenced by many different definitions of otherness. I believe that it is Horkiemer and Adorno that talk about the idea that all of these absolutes are ultimately incomplete and actually must use pieces of each other to in some sense create a whole, thus each defining factor of otherness is defined in relation to another idea of “other”. For instance the African American female, can not with in this hegemonic society see herself as apart of the male dominated society solely because she is female. But femaleness is still not enough to define her because she is still isolated more, she is not a white female. Thus she must be African American but not an African American male. Therefore with in this Postmodern structure is their more of an alienation of identity with the commodification of “otherness” as a way to represent “new budding identities”?