AJ24076 Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Novel

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:35 31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives (in Czech)
The course will consider developments in twentieth century British novels and in related aspects of psychoanalytic, political and cultural theory. Participants may read only the novels, only the theory or both, but not neither. Novels considered will include Joyce's 'Ulysses',D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love', Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', George Orwell's 1984, Ian McEwan's 'The Child in Time and Pat Barker's 'Regeneration'. Theory will include aspects of the writing of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Frederic Jameson, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,Juergen Habermas,and Alain Badiou.Assessment by essay (50%) and class contribution (50%)
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Week 1 Introductory Week 2 D. H. Lawrence - Women In love (Chs 1-13); S. Freud - Beyond the Pleasure Principle Week 3 D. H. Lawrence - Women In Love (Chs 14-22); J. Lacan -The Function of the Good & the Beautiful Week 4 D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love (Chs 22-end); S. Zizek - Republics of Gilead; From the Sublime to the Ridiculous -The Sexual Act in the Cinema. Week 5 James Joyce-Ulysses;Episodes 9-13; J.Kristeva: In Praise of Love; Romeo & Juliet Week 6 James Joyce Ulysses; Episodes 13-17; Deleuze & Guattari: Anti Oedipus Ch. 1. Week 7 V. Woolf -To the Lighthouse (part 1):A. Badiou: Politics as Truth Procedure; Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable Week 8 V. Woolf -To the Lighthouse(part 2): J. Habermas: Universal Pragmatics: Discourse Ethics Week 9 G. Orwell - 1984 (part 1)J. Derrida : Spectres of Marx Week 10 G. Orwell - 1984 (part 2); R. Rorty:Private Irony & Liberal Hope; A Spectre Is Haunting The Intellectuals Week 11 I. McEwan - The Child in Time or Pat Barker - Regeneration(part1); F. Jameson; Video Week 12 I. McEwan - The Child In Time or Pat Barker - Regeneration (part 2)Baudrillard, Zizek, Habermas,Derrida - on 9.11
Literature
  • Badiou, Alain Theoretical Writings London Continuum 2004
  • Lacan, Jacques The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1979) Harmondsworth Penguin
  • Zizek, Slavoj The Plague of Fantasies London Verso 1997
  • Ecrits: A Selection (2001) London Routledge
  • Freud, Sigmund The Essentials of Psychoanalysis Harmondsworth pelican 1986
  • Lacan, Jacques The Ethics of Psychoanalysis London Routledge 1980
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of Bourgeois society. 10th print. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999, xix, 301 s. ISBN 0-262-08180-6. info
  • The Habermas reader. Edited by William Outhwaite. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, vi, 387 s. ISBN 0-7456-1394-2. info
  • LAWRENCE, David Herbert. Women in love. London: Penguin Books, 1996, 542 s. ISBN 0-14-062161-X. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. To the lighthouse. Edited by Hermione Lee - Stella McNichol. London: Penguin Books, 1992, xlvii, 267. ISBN 0-14-018572-0. info
  • JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Edited by Declan Kiberd. Annotated student's ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, lxxxviii,. ISBN 0-14-018559-3. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles and Félix GUATTARI. A thousand plateaus :capitalism and schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. London: Continuum, 1988, xix, 610 s. ISBN 0-8264-6099-2. info
  • MCEWAN, Ian. The child in time. Picador ed. London: Pan Books, 1988, 220 s. ISBN 0-330-30406-2. info
  • ORWELL, George. Nineteen eighty-four. London: Penguin Books, 1987, 325 s. ISBN 0-14-012671-6. info
  • KRISTEVA, Julia. Tales of love : Histoires d'amour (Orig.). Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, ix, 414 s. ISBN 0-231-06024-6. info
  • KRISTEVA, Julia. The Kristeva reader. Edited by Toril Moi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, 327 s. ISBN 0-231-06324-5. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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