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“Character”
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“Character”

T. Miller
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol.5(3), pp.303-306
2008
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Abstract

"Character" is invoked by the bourgeois media with inquisitorial reverence in US Presidential election campaigns as a means of problematising candidates. Distinctions are avidly drawn between "personality"-the psychological cards one is dealt-and "character"-how one plays them. A failing that derives from "personality" (which seems to be about fun and the id) can be overcome by "character" (which seems to be about repression and the ego/superego)…

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