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