| Week 1 Aug 30 |
Introduction to course, syllabus, and artifact paper |
| Week 2 Sept 6 |
Artifact paper |
| Week 3 Sept 13 |
Burke, Rhetoric of Motives |
| Week 4 Sept 20 |
Burke, cont. Selections from Biesecker, Addressing Postmodernity |
| Week 5 Sept 27 |
Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I” + essays on the gaze |
| Week 6 Oct 4 |
Paper 2 |
| Week 7 Oct 11 |
Freud, Group Psychology, The Ego and the Id, “Mourning and Melancholia,” “Psychical Treatment,” Freud/Einstein correspondence |
| Week 8 Oct 18 |
Borch-Jacobsen, The Emotional Tie; Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, “The Unconscious is Structured Like an Affect” |
| Week 9 Oct 25 |
Ronell, Crack Wars |
| Week 10 Nov 1 |
Butler, The Psychic Life of Power |
| Week 11 Nov 8 |
Paper 3 |
| Week 12 Nov 15 |
DDD outage: RSA Board Meeting in Chicago |
| Week 13 Nov 22 |
Thanksgiving |
| Week 14 Nov 29 |
Nancy, The Inoperative Community |
| Week 15 Dec 6 |
Derrida, “Mnemosyne,” Ronell, “On Friendship” |
| Week 16 Dec 11 |
Paper 4 due via email to me on Tuesday, Dec 11 |
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