How do I give an account of myself? What things—words, attributes, attitudes, temporalities, scenes—do I need in order to tell you, who is before me, who I am? What is really in the question: 'who are you'? How do I/we answer this question? What happens to me/us when we ask it? Who can tell if I've given an account of myself? When will I know if I've done it? Done it well? Done it right? In this thesis, I explore Giving an Account of Oneself, Judith Butler's guide on the subject, published in 2005 by Fordham University Press. I follow Butler's dealings in philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, and social and literary theory—tracing the lineage of her argument and clarifying her claims. My project is part theory, part practice: as I attempt to reconstruct Butler's understanding of how a subject gives an account of herself, I attempt to give an account of my own.
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