ENGL7030 · English
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course satisfies the theory requirement for graduate students. A course on psychoanalytic theory, featuring works by Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Zizek, Dolar, and possibly Abraham and Torok, Deleuze, and Han. We will focus on concepts such as melancholia & abjection, masochism, fetishism, castration/lack, the drive (in particular, the death drive), the gaze, transference, love/desire, sublimation, the Symbolic/Imaginary/Real triad, andjouissance as well as the clinical categories of obsessional neurosis, hysteria, perversion, psychosis. We will read material on these thinkers, such as Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Restuccia'sAmorous Acts andThe Blue Box (on contemporary film), Zupancic'sWhat is Sex? as well as her newest book on Antigone, and possibly essays by Copjec. Especially through Zizek's Sexuality and the Failed Absolute, we will tie psychoanalysis to philosophy. Two papers will be required.
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Fall 2023
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