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About a Different Identity

In: Best Inclusion Practices

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  • Margarita Alonso

    (IE University)

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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.

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  • Margarita Alonso, 2013. "About a Different Identity," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Best Inclusion Practices, chapter 1, pages 3-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-03394-9_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137033949_1
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