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Fall 2002

 

8/22 Introduction to the Course

8/29 Bringing the Plague           
         Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
     
   Felman, Introduction, Chapters 1, 3

9/5: The Mirror Stage
     
Lacan: "The Mirror Stage," in Ecrits
     
Nobus: "Life and Death in the Glass: A New Look at the Mirror Stage," in Key Concepts

9/12:  The Lacanian Subject
       
Lacan: Sections 16, 17, and 18 of Four Fundamental Concepts
       
Fink, parts 1 and 2 of The Lacanian Subject
       
Verhaeghe, "Causation and Destitution of a Pre-ontological Non-entity: On the Lacanian Subject," in Key Concepts
       

9/19 The Unconscious, the Gaze, and Fantasy
       
Lacan: Sections 1-9 of Four Fundamental Concepts
       
Zizek: "The Seven Veils of Fantasy," in Key Concepts       

9/26 Against Adaptation
       
Lacan: "Subversion of the Subject," in Ecrits

10/3 Jouissance
       
Lacan: from Seminar XX, on reserve
        Fink, chapters 7 and 8 of The Lacanian Subject
       
Evans, "From Kantian Ethics to Mystical Experience: An Exploration of Jouissance"

10/10 The Four Discourses
        
Verhaeghe, on reserve
         Fink, "The Master Signifier and the Four Discourses," in Key Concepts

10/17 Psychoanalysis of Culture: Part I
        
Zizek, Part I: Looking Awry

10/24 No Class: APCS conference at University of Pennsylvania

10/31  Psychoanalysis of Culture: Part II
       
Zizek, Part II: Looking Awry
       
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11/7 Psychoanalysis of Culture: Part III
       Zizek, Part III: Looking Awry
      
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11/14 Psychoanalysis and Linguistics:
       
Lacan: "Agency of the Letter," "Function and Field of Speech," in Ecrits
       
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11/21 Psychoanalysis and Literature:
       
Felman, chapters 2 and 5
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11/28 Thanksgiving

12/5: Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy:
       
Felman, Chapter 4
        Verhaeghe, on reserve
        Presentations:
        Final Papers Due

12/12: Psychoanalysis and Composition:
        
Berman, Jeff, Risky Writing
      
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