LOSS OF THE SELF IN POSTMODERN DISCOURSE. DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY

The topic of the present article concerns problem deconstructing and reconstructing identity. In modernism we come across two contrary desires: desire for a fixed identity to go beyond it. Under concepts ‘the self’, ‘space’, ‘time’, ‘rationality’, ‘causality’, ‘society’, ‘history’ not only mean world, but also ourselves. aim research is study alienated, absurd, existentialist anti-heroes which are all in same position, failing find clear meaning personal, identifiable form existence. postmodern age, notion unique that used command an aura has been lost due human ability create exact reproductions. No one exactly knows what meant by term ‘postmodernism’. All it some kind reaction against or extension ultimately turns on itself.