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Course
Description:
This course will offer an introduction to contemporary
psychoanalytic theory and its uses for academic inquiry. For the first
half of the course, we will explore the fundamental concepts and
principles of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, including desire, drive,
jouissance, the mirror stage, the four discourses, and the registers of
the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. The remainder of the course
will be devoted to exploring the ways in which these concepts can be
usefully related to the various disciplines within English Studies. In
addition, we will examine how psychoanalysis provides a productive
framework (beyond historicism and rhetoricalism) with which to understand
and theorize cultural concerns such as race, the body, and queer
subjectivities.
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Required
Texts:
Freud, Sigmund: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Lacan, Jacques: Ecrits: A Selection; The Four Fundamental
Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Fink, Bruce: The Lacanian Subject
Nobus, Danny, ed.: Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Felman, Shoshana: Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
Zizek, Slavoj: Looking Awry
Berman, Jeffrey: Risky Writing |
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