Date | Theories and Texts | References & Examples |
I. Psychoanalysis: Language of the Mind, Desire and Trauma
1. 9/18 |
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2. 9/25 |
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3. 10/2 |
The Interpretation of Dreams Chaps V & VI (excerpts); |
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4. 10/9 |
Sigmund Freud: Narcissism and Melancholia
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5. 10/16 |
Sigmund Freud: Trauma and Repetition Compulsion
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Didion The Year of Magical Thinking (excerpt)![]() |
6. 10/23 |
Jacques Lacan
(Norton 1278-1310): Desire, the Other and Language ref. "The ego
and the Imaginary" "Sexuality and the Symbolic Order"*4
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Lacan, Jacques "Yellow Wallpaper" or "The Dead" |
7. 10/30 |
Jacques
Lacan (Norton 1278-1310): Desire, the Other and Language |
The case of Elizabeth Bishop![]() |
8. 11/6 |
"The Indirections of Desire: Hamlet"*1
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Your examples |
2. Marxism, Foucault and Bordieu: Subject in Discourse and Social Space
9. 11/13
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General Introduction & Karl Marx (Norton 759-787) : Capitalism
and Social Relations
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The Corporation![]() The Corporation Summary |
10. 11/20
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Louis Althusser (Norton 1476 - 1509): Ideology
and Social Formation
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Your examples |
11. 11/27
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Terry Eagleton
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Your examples |
12. 12/4 |
Michel
Foucault --Discourse and Power
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SparkNotes! |
13. 12/11 |
Henri Lefebvre The Production of Space (excerpts) *12
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outline Your examples |
14. 12/18 | David Harvey "The experience of space and time" from The Condition of Postmodernity *14
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outline Blade Runner |
15. 12/25 | Holiday | |
16. 1/1 |
Holiday |
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17. 1/8 | Spatial Categories: Habitus, Local, Location and Locale |
Habitus: 1.
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3. Presentation
18. 1/15
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Paper Presentation |
Main Sources (1): The Norton
Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. NY &
London: Norton, 2001.
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