Beyond Identity and Ideology: Processes of Transcendence Associated with the Experience of Conversion.

Mark Tappan (2005) utilizes the autobiography of Malcolm X to exemplify how dialogical processes such as `ideological becoming' act on the development of identity considering at the same time the role of sociocultural dynamics of domination and subordination. Concentrating on this dialogical process, I seek to help its interpretation with a focus that emphasizes the necessity of studying the processes tied to the transitions of development and turning points, situating the `ideological becoming' process within a larger model which, in my opinion differentiates more clearly the different experiential aspects that can be implicated in the development of a new identity At the same time I use elements of the autobiography of Malcolm X to illustrate these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]