Self forms through recognizing an other both alike and different

Evidence

For Benjamin, the process of mutual transformation or recognition, the ‘dance of interaction’, is the basis of the formation of self through mutuality, a process in which an external other sets a boundary or limit to the self and its desires. This formation involves the recognition of the other as alike (non-alien) but as different, as other. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 582

Categorization

• XREF: Benjamin’s object-relations ‘dance of interaction’ connects to the listening/observation-as-method thread across courses and to ecofeminist relational accounts of knowing. — connects to: Plumwood adopts Keller’s dynamic objectivity as the non-dualistic mode of observation — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 463; Respect for nature is an act of individuation, not of boundary-drawing — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 511; The instrumentalizing self cannot hold alikeness and difference together at once — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 590 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #corroborates (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness #exemplifies (0.90)
• Mutual recognition establishes a symmetrical dependence between self and Other #exemplifies (0.85)
• Identity is formed through contrast with difference #expands (0.80)
• Identity is simultaneously about belonging and about differentiating from others. #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 118
• Self-certainty requires recognition from the other #corroborates (0.75)
• Identity is internally mediated by the non-identical #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1223
• The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675
• Identity forms through alienation in a reflected image #exemplifies (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 677
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #responds-to (0.70)