CRT4070

Lacan and subjectivity

(ART)

Proposed to be offered next in 2002

Claire Colebrook

12 points + 2 hours per week + Clayton + Prerequisites: CRT2050/3050 or PHL3050; or CRT2060/3060 or PHL3060

Synopsis: An introductory reading of the difficult psychoanalytic texts of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan. His accounts of the ego, subjectivity and otherness; the unconscious and desire /structured like a language0; the phallus and sexual difference. The subject shows his relevance to philosophical accounts of subjectivity, theories of literary and visual representation, and feminist theory.

Assessment: Seminar paper (3000 words): 20% + Essay (6000 words) OR two essays (3000 words): 80%