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(none) 3 (Chien-Hung CHEN) mspf@mail.ncku.edu.tw 52236 15:10-16:00 (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939) (Jacques Lacan, 1901- 1981) (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939) (Retour aux textes freudiens!) Intended for beginners, the seminar starts with a positioning of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), the epigone of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and the most influential psychoanalyst after him, in the context of the international psychoanalytic movement ignited by the founding father of the burgeoning discipline at the turn of the 20th century. Retour aux textes freudiens! (Return to Freuds texts!) With this slogan which strikes a revolting tone in regard of a great number of Freuds stray acolytes, the French Freud heralded in 1953 with a vengeance the revolutionary period of psychoanalysis in innovating a linguisticized doctrine: langage, lalangue, la linguisterie, and algebra. In line with the close reading of the French thinkers works, the seminar aims to bring students into the picture about Lacanian psychoanalysis and, eventually, shed new light on literary interpretation and cultural studies. 1. acquisition of a precise and concise knowledge of Lacanian psychoanalysis; 2. application of Lacanian psychoanalysis to literary criticism.
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The suggested topics are as follows: 1. methodology of Lacanian psychoanalysis: langage, lalangue, la linguisterie, algebra; 2. epistemology of Lacanian psychoanalysis: nosology and related concepts; 3. subjectivity, intra-subjectivity, inter-subjectivity: topology of the real, the symbolic, the imaginary, and the schema L; 4. the linguisticization of psychoanalysis: parltre in function of criture (writing); 5. the genealogy of desire: the graph of desire; 6. Nom-du-Pre (Name-of-the-Father) as cultural factor. Texts: Evans, Dylan. An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1996. Print. Glowinski, Huguette, Zita M. Marks, and Sara Murphy. A Compendium of Lacanian Terms. London: Free Association Books, 2001. Print. Lacan, Jacques. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience." Ecrits. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: Norton, 2005. 75-81. Print. ---. "Some Reflections on the Ego." Paper read to the British Psycho-Analytical Society on 2 May, 1951. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 34 (1953): 11-17. Print. ---. "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psycho-analysis." Ecrits. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: Norton, 2005. 197-268. Print. ---, and Granoff, Wladimir. "Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real." Perversions: Psychodynamics and Therapy. Ed. Sandor Lorand and Michael Balint. New York: Gramercy, 1956. 265-276. Print. ---. "The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud." Ecrits. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: Norton, 2005. 412-441. Print. ---. "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious." Ecrits. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: Norton, 2006. 671-702. Print. ---. Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar. Trans. Jeffrey Mehlman. October 40 (Spring, 1987): 81-95. Print. ---. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Norton, 1977. Print. ---. "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever." The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man. Ed. Richard Macksey and Eugenio Donato. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. 186-200. Print. ---. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore 1972-1973: On Feminine Sexuality and the Limits of Love and Knowledge. New York: Norton, 1998. Print. ---. "Television." October 40 [Spring 1987]: 6-50. Print. , (Jakobson, Roman). "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances." Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle. Fundamentals of Language. 4th edition. The Hague: Mouton, 1980 (1st edition: 1956). 67-96. Print. Laplanche, J., et Pontalis, J.-B. The Language of Psychoanalysis. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Norton, 1973. Print. Miller, Jacques-Alain. "Teachings of the Case Presentation." Returning to Freud: Clinical Psychoanalysis in the School of Lacan. Edited and translated by Sturart Schneiderman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. 42-52. Print. ---. Microscopia: An Introduction to the Reading of Televosion. Jacques Lacan. Television. Trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson. Ed. Joan Copjec. New York: Norton, 1990. xi-xxxi. Print. Rajchman, John. Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity. Representations 15 (Summer, 1986): 42-56. Print.
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(F. v.: John Rajchman. Le savoir-faire avec l'inconscient. Paris: William Blake & Co,1986.) Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Edited by Charles Bally and Albert Schehaye in collaboration with Albert Riedlinger. Translated, with an introduction and notes by Wade Baskin. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1959. Print. Further reading: Badiou, Alain. Philosophys French Adventure. New Left Review 35 (Sep.-Oct. 2005): 67-77. Print. Descombes, Vincent. Le Mme et l'autre quarante-cinq ans de philosophie franaise (1933-1978). Paris: Minuit, 1979. Print. (E. t.: Vincent Descombes. Modern French Philosophy. Trans. L. Scott-Fox and J. M. Harding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Print.) Dictionnaire international de la psychanalyse, vol. I-II. 2002. Sous la direction dAlain de Mijolla. Edition revue et augmente. Paris: Hachette, 2005. (E. t.: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Vol. I-III. Ed. Alain de Mijolla. New York: Thomson Gale, 2005.) Feldstein, Richard, Bruce Fink, and Maire Jaanus, ed. Reading Seminar XI: Lacans Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995. Print. Fink, Bruce. Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Print. lacanian ink. Print. Lemaire, Anika. Jacques Lacan. Bruxelles: Pierre Mardaga, 1970. Print. (E. t.: Anika Lemaire. Jacques Lacan. Trans. David Macey. London: Routledge, 1977. Print.) Marini, Marcelle. Jacques Lacan. Paris: Pierre Belford, 1986. Print. (E. v.: Marcelle Marini. Jacques Lacan: The French Context. Trans. Anne Tomiche. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Print.) October 40 Television (Spring, 1987). Print. Roudinesco, Elisabeth. La bataille de cent ans: histoire de la psychanalyse en France, t. l: 1885-1939. Paris: Ramsay, 1982. Print. ---. La bataille de cent ans: histoire de la psychanalyse en France, t. 2: 1925-1985, Paris: Le Seuil, 1986. Print. ---. Jacques Lacan: esquisse dune vie, histoire dun systme de pense. Paris: Fayard, 1993. Print. (E. t.: Elisabeth Roudinesco. Jacques Lacan. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Print.) ---. Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, t. l: 1885-1939. Paris: Fayard, 1994. Print. ---. Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, t. 2: 1925-1985, Paris: Fayard, 1994. Print. (E. t.: Elisabeth Roudinesco. Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985. Trans. Jeffrey Mehlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Print.) The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Ed. Jean-Michel Rabat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Print. Wright, Elizabeth. Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice. London: Methuen, 1984. Print. Yale French Studies 48 French Freud: Structural Studies in Psycho-analysis (1972). Print. Yale French Studies 55-56 Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise (1977). Print. 21.6/246 (1992 11 ): 56-63
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Print. (Original: Sigmund Freud, "Der Dichter und das Phantasieren." Gesammelte Werke, 7. Band. 5. Auflage. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1972 [1. Auflage: 1941]. 221223. Print.) 86 (1993 6 1 ): 134-139Print. (Original: Sigmund Freud, "Der Familienroman der Neurotiker." Gesammelte Werke, 7. Band. 5. Auflage. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1972 [1. Auflage: 1941]. 225-231. Print.) 101 (1994 9 1 ): 94-101Print. (Original: Sigmund Freud, "Psychopathische Personen auf der Bhne." Schrift zur Kunst und Literatur. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1969. 161-168. Print.) : 28.3/327 (1999 8 ): 84-153 Print. () 35.3/411 (2006 8 ): 141-170Print. 20082008 5 30 2008 2008 5.1-5.32 Print. 1. close reading of the selected works before the class; 2. critical reading of Lacanian approach to literary scholarship. 30% for class participation, 30% for oral presentation on assigned topics, 40% for the mid-term and term papers (9-10 pages for Ph. D. students, 7-8 pages for M. A. students).