Date Topics & Texts
ref. & e.g.
I. General Introduction and Psychoanalysis
9/23/05 0.1. From Alice to Alien: Mapping Identity Issues & Theories

Alice in the Wonderland, Alien, etc.

9/30/05

0.2. From Alice to Alien: Mapping Identity Issues & Theories

  • Kath Woodward: "Questions of Identity" (sources: 1)
  • Stuart Hall: "Who Needs Identity" (sources: 2)
  • and your own example
 1, 2

II. Identity in Development

10/7/05

1. Freud and Lacan

1. Freud 1
ref. Freud; Lacan
1, 2

10/14/05

2. Object Relations Theories (1)

  • Melanie Klein: "Notes on some schizoid mechanisms" (sources: 2)
  • Michael Rustin: "Psychoanalysis, racism and anti-racism" (sources: 2)

 Klein 1, 2

1,ref. 2

10/21/05

3. Object Relations Theories (2)

  • D. W. Winnicott: "Mirror-role of mother and family inchild development"; "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomenon" (sources: 2)
  • Ref. "The Psychological Uses of Ruthlessness in a Children's Fantasy Tale: Beatrix Potter and The Tale of Peter Rabbit"(EngSite)
Peter Pan & Peter Rabbit
1 ; ref.1, 2
10/28/05

4. Contemporary Responses: Narcissism

  • Christopher Lasch"Narcissus Personality of our Time" (sources: 2)
  • Jessica Benjamin "The Oedipal Riddle" (sources: 2) (Alice Wei)
Ref. 1;

1, "Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow"

11/4/05 Preparation for mid-term proposal ˇ@


III. Social Identity, Capitalism & Modernity

11/11/05

0.3 Modernity and its Other

  • Robert Bocock "The Cultural Formations of Modern Society" (sources: 7) (Hope Chu)
  • Marshall Berman "Why Modernism Still Matters" (sources: 8)
Intro. & Marshallˇ@
11/18/05

5. Social Control (1): Fetishism & Reification

Ref
Capital v1;
Reification

text;
Lukacs
11/25/05

6. Social Control (2): Subjectification

Ref. Hannah "Imperfect Panopticism: Envisioning the Construction of Normal Lives"(sources: 6)

ref.later Foucault 1, 2

1, 2

Hope's text

12/2/05

7. Social Agency (1): Self-Narrativization

Terence's text
12/9/05

8. Social Agency (2): Aestheticization of Everyday Life

  • Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (sources: 5) (E-Text)
  • Mike Featherstone: "Postmodernism and Aestheticization of Everyday life"(sources: 8)(Tower)

general; work of art
Leena's textˇ@
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IV. Place and the Postcolonial Identities (Subject to Change)

12/16/05
9. Politics of Location

Sara's textˇ@

12/23/05

10. Postcolonial Identities (1): Self-Hatred and Disavowal

  • Fanon: "The Negro and Psychopathology" (sources: 2)
  • Homi Bhabha: "Interrogating Identity: The Post Colonial Prerogative" (sources: 2) (Carmilla Lo)

Alice's text

12/30/05

11. Postcolonial Identity: (2): Hybridity & Diaspora

  • Homi Bhabha: "Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity" (sources: 14) (Terence Chou)
  • Stuart Hall "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" (sources: 15)

1, 2

Bhabha excerpts

Carmille's text


1/6/06

12. Postcolonial Identity: (3) Migration & Routes

  • 'Routes/ Roots': Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity" (sources: 16) (Sharon Wu)
  • Carole Boyce Davies: "Migratory Subjectivities" (sources: 11)
Sharon's textˇ@

IV. Identity andVision

1/11/06 Wed 9:00 - 12:00 (makeup)

13. Suture and Male Voyeurism

  • Kaja Silverman "Suture: the Cinematic Model" (sources: 2)
  • Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"(sources: 2)(Eric Lin)
    Ref. Doanne "Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator"(sources: 2)
Tower's text
1/13/06

14. Flaneur

  • Tester, Keith. "Introduction."  (sources: 10) (Simone)
  • Morawski, Stefan. "The hopeless game of flanerie." (sources: 10)
Eric's textˇ@

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1/20/06 Paper Presentation ˇ@

Sources:

  1. Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation (An Introduction to the Social Sciences) Kathleen M. Woodward (Editor). NY: Routledge, 2000.
  2. The Identity Reader. Eds. Paul Du Gay, Jessica Evans &Peter Redman. Sage, 2000.
  3. The Freud Reader. W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
  4. Capital Vol 1. Trans. Ben Fowkes. Intro. Ernest Mandel. NY: Vintage, 1977.
  5. Visual Culture: The Reader. Eds. Evans, Jessica & Stuart Hall. London: Sage, 1999.
  6. Space and Social Theory. Benko, George & Ulf Stronhmayer, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
  7. Formations of Modernity. Hall, Stuart and Bram Gieben. The Open University:1992.
  8. Modernity and Identity. Ed. Scott Lash & Jonathan Friedman. Hong Kong: Blackwell, 1992.
  9. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. Ed. Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen. NY: Oxford UP, 1992.
  10. The Flaneur. Ed. Keith Tester. NY: Routledge, 1994.
  11. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan. Oxford Malden, Mass : Blackwell , 1998.
  12. Feminism/Postmodernism. Ed. Linda Nicholson. NY: Routledge, 1990.
  13. Place and the Politics of Identity. Ed.Michael Keith & Steve Pile (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 84-96.
  14. The Location of Culture. Homi K. Bhabha. NY: Routledge, 1994.
  15. Identity and Difference. Woodward, Kathryn ed. London: Sage, 1997.
  16. Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter. Susan Stanford Friedman. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1998.