CLEN G4995 - Special Topics in Modern Literature: Reading Lacan

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Columbia University in the City of New York

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Reading selections from Lacan's Seminar XIV: The Logic of Phantasy 1966-7; Seminar XX: Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge 1972-3; Seminar XXIV The unknown that knows the unconscious/or blunder takes wings at playing love/death game 1976-7 together with selected novels, short stories, and poems. Emphasis on Lacan's elaboration of the phantasy, the four discourses, jouissance, the formulas of sexuation, and his redefinition of our notions of the imagination, the body, language, and the function of the arts. Consideration of the relevance of his thought to literature, aesthetics, and culture.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.columbia.edu

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(212) 854-1754

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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