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090091 VO Teilgebiet der altgriechischen Literatur (Prosa): Enjoying the Subject in Antiquity (2024S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
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Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 05.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 19.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 09.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 16.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 23.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 30.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 07.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 14.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 21.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 28.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 04.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 11.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Dienstag 18.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course directly engages both the continuing relevance of psychoanalysis to our contemporary world and the challenge presented by these critiques through a deeply historicized reading of fundamental texts in the psychoanalytic tradition.
In this course, we will squarely engage the questions of desire, language, and history in a range of ancient texts and modern commentators. In particular, we will read and comment on Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Artemidorus’s Interpretation of Dreams, as well as select poems of Catullus. Modern texts featured will include excerpts from Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle, as well as Lacan’s Ethics of Psychoanalysis, and Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth and History of Sexuality. Reference will also be made to a wide variety of other modern thinkers stretching from Judith Butler, to Žižek, Irigaray, and Kristeva.

The course has three specific goals. 1.) It will expose students and auditors in the class to new ways of thinking about both the ancient texts covered and the way they, in turn, can shape our understanding of their significance for psychoanalysis. 2.) It will familarize students with basic psychoanalytic concepts and key contemporary debates surrounding them. 3.) It will present specific theses on the relation between rationality and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy and the historicization of subjectivity.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Students will have a take home exam. The exam will consist of essay questions derived from material presented in the class. Students will choose one and develop a well-argued essay based on that topic. Students will be expected make reference both to primary source materials read in the class and topic covered in the lectures and discussions.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students will be expected to attend the lectures and prepare readings for the class. They may read the texts in English, German, or the original language. Reading assignments and PowerPoint slides for each day’s lecture will be posted online.

Prüfungsstoff

Choose one the of the questions below. Write an essay of 2000 to 2500 words explaining your answer. Cite specific passages from the in-class readings to back up your position. A good essay should have an introduction, a thesis statement, and a conclusion. Please email me your essay not later than July 15th

1. Foucault and Freud have a complicated relationship. In part this can be seen in their respective readings of Artemidorus and in Foucault’s. Discuss how you understand psychoanalysis after Foucault’s History of Sexuality.
2. Freud was fascinated by Oedipus Rex. Lacan’s Ethics of Psychoanalysis focuses on Antigone. How does the focus on these two different Sophoclean tragedies produce different understandings of the aims of psychoanalysis?
3. In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud introduces the concept of the Death Drive. It is key to Lacan’s concept of “enjoyment.” Define that concept and illustrate its use for literary studies by citing specific passages from Catullus and or Sophocles.

Literatur

Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles: Antigone
Catullus: Poems
Artemidorus: Interpretation of Dreams, Book 1
Freud: Interpretation of Dreams
Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Michel Foucault: History of Sexuality, vols 1, 2, and the first chapter of vol. 3

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Di 25.06.2024 11:05