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Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies (UPCES)

CERGE-EI and the School of Humanities at Charles University


Politickch vz 7, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Tel. : +420 224 005 201, +420 224 005 133, +420 224 005 208, Fax : +420 224 005 225 Website: http://upces.cerge-ei.cz/

Psychoanalysis and Cultural-Studies


Fall 2012

Professor: Erik S. Roraback, D.Phil. (Oxon.); B.A. (Pomona) e-mail: erik.roraback@gmail.com www.erikroraback.com

BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE COURSE: To study in some detail a select band of the seminars offered by the major post-Freudian psychoanalytic thinker, teacher and practitioner, Jacques Lacan (1901-81), and some outstanding Lacan-criticism. We shall also engage some important post-Lacanian thinkers with special reference to Slavoj iek (1949-) and to Julia Kristeva (1940-) in order to use psychoanalysis as a powerful critical tool to diagnose both individual and social reality, and individual artworks. ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING POLICY: Reading: there is not an over-abundance of matter to be read for the class; therefore, that which is assigned deserves your careful attention Writing: a mid-term paper of 1500-2000 words and a final paper of 2500-3000 words; topics will be given two weeks in advance, but you can also make your own creative choice of topic area that must have the professors approval in advance; regrettably, late papers will not be accepted. Assessment: Mid-term essay 20%, Final essay 40%, Attendance, Participation and Oral Presentation 40% ; crucially, you are allowed up to two unexcused absences maximum out of fourteen sessions total (i.e., four out of twenty-eight component parts with each week having two parts) to pass the course; your mental participation and over-all affect on the quality of the class inform this grade as much as how much you contribute to seminar discussions; arriving more than ten minutes late for class or leaving for more than ten minutes for any part of the class

session will result in an absence for that day. There will be one ten minute break at the midpoint mark during each weeks three-hour-long session. All students must sign up for one in-class oral presentation that should be roughly of fifteen minutes duration; ideally, it should offer an opportunity to contest and to test your ideas with us and so usefully serve as work to consult for one of the two required papers for the course. READINGS: Extracts from a select band of the following critical and theoretical texts will be available in a course reader, sent to students as email attachments, or will be discussed by the instructor:
--Malcolm Bowie, Lacan (Harvard, 1991). --Lorenzo Chiesa, Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan, Short Circuits series, ed. Slavoj iek (MIT, 2007). --Bruce Fink, A Clinical Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Harvard, 1997). --Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Penguin, 2002). --A. Kiarina Kordela, Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY, 2007). --Julia Kristeva, Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 (Columbia, 2000). --Julia Kristeva, Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, Volume 2 (Columbia, 2002). --Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. with notes Dennis Porter (Routledge, 2008). --Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Pscyhoanalysis, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XI, ed. -Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Alan Sheridan (Norton, 1981). --Reading Seminar XI: Lacans Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysts, Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds. (SUNY, 2005). --On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-73: Encore, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. with notes Bruck Fink (Norton, 1998). --Alexandre Leupin, Lacan Today: Psychoanalysis, Science, Religion (Other Press, 204).* Text available in CERGE-EI library --Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, trans. Franois Faffoul and David Pettigrew (SUNY, 1992). --James Mellard, Beyond Lacan (SUNY, 2006). --Erik S. Roraback, one or more of the following texts: _____ . A Gateway to a Rhetoric of Lacan and Luhmann a revised version of a paper given at the 14th ConstancePrague-Workshop: Culture and Crisis on Violence and Representation in the Universitt Konstanz, Germany, 4-5/10 2012. Forthcoming in a 2012 book published by Charles University Press for the centenary celebration of Prague English Studies. _____ . Catastrophe, Allegory & The Philosophical Baroque: Benjamin, Lacan, Joyce, Pynchon a paper given at the 12th Constance-Prague-Workshop: Culture and Crisis, Universitt Konstanz, Germany, 10-11/10 2008. _____ . The Dramatism and Folds of Desires Discontents: Welles, Lacan, and Shakespeares King Lear a paper first given on 4 February 2010 at the 9th Conference of English and American Studies, Diversification and its Discontents: Dynamics of the Discipline, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. _____ . The Unconscious, Athletic Identity, & a Whole Galaxy on Stage; or, the 1984 French Open Final, McEnroe vs. Lendla paper given at a colloquium on Identities on 24 September 2010, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic. _____ . Multiple Folds of an Unconscious Crystal Monad: James, Benjamin & Blanchot a paper given on 3 April 2009 for the First Annual Conference of the European Henry James Society. The American University of Paris, 3-5 April 2009. Henry Jamess Europe: Cultural reappropriations, transtextual relations. A Multiplicity of Folds of an Unconscious Crystal Monad: James, Benjamin, and Blanchot. Online chapter S 68-77. Henry Jamess Europe: Heritage and Transfer. Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding, eds. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2011. 294 + S 92pp.

--Slavoj iek, The Fragile Absolute; or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (Verso, 2000). _____ . Interrogating the Real (Continuum, 2005). _____ . Living in the End Times (Verso, 2010). _____ . The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (MIT, 2003). _____ . The Ticklish Subject: The Absend Centre of Political Ontology (Verso, 2008). --Slavoj iek and Boris Gunjevi, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Verso, 2012).

Weekly schedule and readings : Week 1, 26 September: Week 2, 3 October: Week 3, 10 October: Week 4, 17 October: Week 5, 24 October: Week 6, 31 October: Introductions FREUD: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents AFTER FREUD I: Malcolm Bowie, Lacan LACAN I: Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis LACAN II Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Mid Term Essays due AFTER LACAN I Julia Kristeva, Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 (selections) AFTER LACAN II Alexandre Leupin, Lacan Today: Psychoanalysis, Science, Religion IEK I : Slavoj iek, Interrogating the Real (selections) IEK II : Slavoj iek, Interrogating the Real (selections) IEK III : Slavoj iek with Boris Gunjevi, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (selections) PSYCHOANALYIS & POPULAR CULTURE : Erik Roraback, The Unconscious, Athletic Identity, & a Whole Galaxy on Stage; or, the 1984 French Open Final, McEnroe vs. Lendl Conclusions Week 12: No class

Week 7, 7 November: Week 8, 15 November: Week 9, 22 November: Week 10, 29 November: Week 11, 6 December:

Final essay due 13 December that takes the place of the final exam.

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