E33D /
E60C MODULE TWO: LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS / DECONSTRUCTION
Week 4: Lacanian (Structuralist) Psychoanalysis I
Sem. 1: Rereading Freud
- Sigmund Freud Collected Works (or Peter Gay, ed. The Freud Reader):
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
[1920] (also in Rivkin and Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: an Anthology;
also in folder)
- The Ego and the Id [1923] (too
long for folder--see except in Gay)
- "The Dissolution of the Oedipus
Complex" [1924] (also in folder)
- "Fetishism" [1927] (also in Leitch)
(also in folder)
- "The Splitting of the Ego in the
Process of Defence" [1939] (also in folder)
Sem. 2: Rethinking the Process of Ego-Formation
- Jacques Lacan Écrits: "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of
the I" (in Adams and Searle or Rivkin and Ryan also in folder and
elsewhere)
Recommended Readings:
- Celia Britton "Structuralist and Poststructuralist
Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theories" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism
Vol. 8)
- Terry Eagleton Literary
Theory: an Introduction: "Psychoanalysis" (section on Lacan)
Week 5: Lacanian (Structuralist) Psychoanalysis II
Sem. 1: Rethinking the Castration Complex
- Jacques Lacan Écrits: "The Function and Field of Speech and
Language in Psychoanalysis" (brief excerpt included in Rivkin and Ryan under the title "The Symbolic Order"; also in folder)
Sem. 2: Rethinking the Language of the Unconscious
Week 6: Deconstruction I
Sem. 1: Derrida's Model of Signification I
- Jacques Derrida "Différance" (in Adams and Searle)
Sem. 1: Derrida's Model of Signification II
- Jacques Derrida "From Of Grammatology" (in Adams and Searle)
Recommended Readings:
- Terry Eagleton Literary
Theory: an Introduction: "Post-Structuralism" (section on Derrida)
- Ann Jefferson "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism" (section on
Derrida) (in Jefferson and Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory)
- Richard Rorty "Deconstruction" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism
Vol. 8)
Week 7: Deconstruction II
Sem. 1: Deconstructive Critical Theory I
- Roland Barthes
- "The Death of the Author" (in Hazard Adams, ed. Critical
Theory Since Plato; in Leitch)
- "Textual Analysis: Poe’s Valdemar" (in
David Lodge, ed. Modern Critical Theory; also in folder)
Sem. 2: Deconstructive Critical Theory II
- Paul de Man "Semiology and Rhetoric" (in Adams and
Searle)
- Stanley Fish Is There a Text in this Class?:
- "Is There a Text in this Class?" (also in Adams and
Searle)
- "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable"
- Harold Bloom "Poetry, Revisionism, Repression" (in Adams and
Searle)
Recommended Readings:
- Terry Eagleton Literary
Theory: an Introduction: "Post-Structuralism" (section on
Deconstruction)
- Ann Jefferson "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism" (section
on Deconstruction) (in Jefferson
and Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory)
- Lavers, Annette "Roland Barthes" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism
Vol. 8)
- Richard Rorty "Deconstruction" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism
Vol. 8)
- Lois Tyson Critical Theory Today: "Deconstructive
Criticism"