Derrida and Lacan Schedule

Course Schedule

This schedule is tentative.  Departures will be announced in advance.  All the readings listed below the date and topic should be read for that date.

1. Jan. 16: Introduction, the French intellectual scene. Sign up for course site and wiki.

  • Hurst, “Introduction: ‘For the Love of Lacan'” (PDF)
  • Poe, “The Purloined Letter” (PDF)

2. Jan. 23: Enter the Dragon: Lacan in Context (Jake leads on Wiki)

  • Bailey, “Lacan and His Historical Context” (PDF).
  • Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function . . . ” (PDF)
  • Lacan, “The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze” and “Anamorphosis” (in one PDF)
  • video spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFo3trMuD8

3. Jan. 30: Privileging Speech

  • Lacan, “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis” (PDF)

4. Feb. 6: The Subject

5. Feb. 13: Subversion

  • Lacan: “The Subversion of the Subject” (second half; PDF)
  • Van Haute,  Against Adaptation (finish; PDF)
  • Student reading response #3
  • Student reading response #4

6. Feb. 20: Lacan and Rhetoric?

  • Lundberg, Lacan in Public (first half; PDF)
  • Student reading response #5
  • Student reading response #6

7. Feb. 27: More on Lacan and Rhetoric.

  • Lundberg, Lacan in Public (2nd half; PDF)

8. March 6: Derrida on Deconstruction and Speech/Writing

  • Derrida, Of Grammatology, chaps. 1-2 (PDF)
  • Student reading response #7
  • Student reading response #8

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9. March 20: Derrida on issues with Structuralism and Speech Act Theory.

  • Derrida, “Structure Sign and Play” and “Signature Event Context” (PDF)
  • Student reading response #9
  • Student reading response #10

10. March 27: Derrida on Justice and Responsivity.

  • Derrida: “The Politics of Friendship” and “A Number of Yes” (PDF)
  • Student reading response #11
  • Student reading response #12

11. April 3: Derrida on the Subject. (Stephanie leads on wiki)

  • Derrida: “Eating Well” and “Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism” (PDF)

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12. April 10: Derrida on (Late) Deconstruction and Justice/Ethics

  • Derrida: “Of Hospitality.” (PDF) Film Clip; Marked Pdf
  • Student reading response #13
  • Student reading response #14

13. April 17: Derrida on Event and the Machine; the New Logic of the Limit.

  • Derrida: “Typewriter Ribbon.” (PDF)
  • Student Reading Response #15

14. April 24: The Purloined Letter (Gray and Jenna lead on wiki)

  • Lacan, “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter'” (PDF)
  • Derrida, “The Purveyor of Truth” (PDF)

15. May 1: Last Day, Wrap-Up

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