SYLLABUS:

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WEEK 1: Aug. 30

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TH Overview of the Course: Introduction to the Players (Websites)

• Freud, Outline of Psychoanalysis

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WEEK 2: Sept. 4, 6

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TU Derrida and De Saussure

• de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (excerpts)
  
• Derrida, "Différance"
  
• Laclau, "Preface" to The Sublime Object of Ideology (Žižek), ix-xv
  
  

TH Wiki Intro: meet in Development Lab (Mezes 2.116), with Gary Dickerson

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WEEK 3: Sept. 11, 13

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TU Coming from Analysis: Lacan

• "Television" seminar
  
• "On My Antecedents," Écrits, 51-57
  
• "Translator's Endnotes," Écrits, 759 ff.
  
• "Classified Index of the Major Concepts," Écrits, 851-857
  
• "Beyond the Reality Principle," Écrits, 58-74
  
• "Presentation on Transference" (AKA "Intervention on T"), Écrits,176-185
  
• "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in psychoanalysis" (AKA "Rome Discourse"), Écrits, 197-268
  
• "The Freudian Thing," Écrits, 334-363

**Précis 1 due: Lacan essay or chapter of choice

TH Signification: Welcome to the Symbolic Order

• "Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious" (AKA Agency), Écrits, 412-441
  
• Žižek, How to Read Lacan, Introduction and Chapter 1& 2, 1-39
  

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WEEK 4: Sept. 18, 20

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TU Subject Formation: The Imaginary

• "The Mirror Stage as Formation of the I," Lacan, Écrits, 75-81
  
• "Presentation on Psychical Causality," Lacan, Écrits, 121-158 (has madness)
  
• "The Unconscious and Repetition," Lacan, Seminar XI, 17-64
  
  

TH Territorialization and the Individual

• "Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire," Lacan, Écrits, 671-702
  
• "Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward," The Portable Kristeva, 333-350
  
• Julia Kristeva, The Portable Kristeva, Part 3: "Psychoanalysis of Love: A Counterdepressent," 133-224
  

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WEEK 5: Sept. 25, 27

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TU L'objet petit a: Meeting the Real

• "Seminar on the Purloined letter," Lacan, Écrits, 6-48
  
• Žižek, How to Read Lacan, Chapters 3 & 4, 40-78
  
• "Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a," Lacan, Seminar XI, 67-119

*Précis 2 due: any Lacan from Écrits or Kristeva

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• "The Transference and the Drive," Seminar XI, 123-200
  
• "The Field of the Other and Back to the Transference," Seminar XI, 203-260
  
• "To Conclude," 263-276

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WEEK 6: Oct. 2, 4

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TU Agency and Signification, Sex and Power

• "Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Power," Lacan, Écrits, 489-542
  
• "Signification of the Phallus," Lacan, Écrits, 575-584
  
• Žižek, How to Read Lacan, Chapter 5, 79-90
  
  

TH The Master Signifier

• Lacan, Seminar XX, all.

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WEEK 7: Oct. 9, 11

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TU Wiki Review 1: Which entries do we need?
*Précis 3 due: Any essay

TH work day: get with your group and start on wiki entries

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WEEK 8: Oct. 16, 18

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TU The Speaking Subject of (Western) Knowledge

• "Kant with Sade," Lacan, Écrits, 645-668
  
• Žižek, How to Read Lacan, Chapters 6 & 7, 91-120
  
• Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Introduction and Chapter 1, 1-53;
  Rec: Chapter 2: 55-84
  
  

TH Thinking bodies, Agents, Social Subjects

• Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Chapters 3 & 4, 87-149
  
• Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Chapters 5 & 6, 153-231
  

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WEEK 9: Oct. 23, 25

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TU

• Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do, Foreword to the Second Edition, xi -cvii
  
• Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do, Part III, "Cum Grano Praxis" 177-277
  
  

TH Social Semiotics

• Julia Kristeva, "From One Identity to Another," The Portable Kristeva, 93-115
  
• "The System and the Speaking Subject," Kristeva Reader, 24-33
  
• "Semiotics: A Critical Science &/or a Critique of Science," Kristeva Reader, 74-88
  
• "The True-Real," Kristeva Reader, 214-237

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WEEK 10: Oct. 30, Nov. 1

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TU

• Julia Kristeva, The Revolution in Poetic Language, Prolegomenon and Part I: "The Semiotic and the Symbolic," 13-106
  
• Excepts from Part III: "Heterogeneity," 165-181

*Précis 4 due: Any Kristeva or Žižek

TH Freudianism, Redux:

• Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom!, Chaps. 1-3, 1-110
  
• Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom!, Chaps. 4-6, 113-223

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WEEK 11: Nov. 6, 8

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TU

• Wiki Review II

TH Nationalism and Politics

• Julia Kristeva, "My Memory's Hyperbole," from The Portable Kristeva, 3-21
  
• The Portable Kristeva, Pt. 4: "Individual and National Identity," 225-294
  
• Žižek, "Enjoy Your Nation as Yourself," from Tarrying with the Negative, 200-237

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WEEK 12: Nov. 13, 15

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TU

• The Portable Kristeva, Pt.6 : "Revolt and Imagination," 409-449
  
• Joan Copjec, "May '68, the Emotional Month," Lacan: Silent Partners, 90-114
  
  

TH

• Žižek, "The Ideological Sinthome," Looking Awry, 125-140
  
• Žižek, "The Obscene Object of Postmodernity," Looking Awry, 141-153
  
• Žižek, The Ticklish Subject, Part II: "The Split Universality," 125-244
  

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WEEK 13: Nov. 20, 22

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TU

• Rec: Ticklish Subject, Pt II: "From Subjection to Subjective Destitution," 245-399
  
  

TH THANKSGIVING

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WEEK 14: Nov. 27, 29

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TU

• Žižek, "Burned by the Sun," Lacan: The Silent Partners, 217-230
  
• Žižek, "The Politics of Redemption, or Why Wagner is Worth Saving," Lacan: The Silent Partners, 231-269
  
  

TH Group work

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WEEK 15: Dec. 4, 6

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TU Group work

TH Final Class

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FINAL 12 Dec. 9-12

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