Psychoanalysis and Linguistics Seminar
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Psychoanalysis and Linguistics Seminar
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Instructor: Dr. Eric Jobe

Schedule:

January: Saturdays Jan 6, 13, 20, 27 at 3pm New York Time

You may take this course for 3 ECTS credits. Please email us at contact@gcas.ie if you wish to take this course for credit.

 

Description:

This seminar will focus upon the core linguistic principles of psychoanalysis as discussed by Sigmund Freud as well as those  introduced into the Freudian field by Jacques Lacan. This will be an interdisciplinary seminar touching both upon linguistic theory and psychoanalysis. The fundamental concept to be discovered in this seminar is universal models of thought that underlie linguistic as well as unconscious psychical processes. 

Schedule for Live Session Discussion Sessions:

Session 1: Foundations - Linguistic Revolutions: Readings:  Saussure, Jakobson - Closing Statement, Jakobson - Aphasia, Group μ 

Session 2: Building on the foundation - Freud and his interpreters: Readings: Freud - Interpretation of Dreams, Freud - Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Lacan - Seminar V

Session 3: Higher structures - Lacanian Discourse Theory: Readings: Neill, Catch up on prior weeks readings

Session 4: In the clouds - Language and Logic in Lacan: Readings: Lacan - Seminar XIX, Catch up on prior weeks readings

Academic Level: (Undergraduate/Post-Graduate)

Prerequisites: None

Format: This course will have 4 pre-recorded lectures that will introduce core concepts and theory. There will then be 4 live discussion sessions via GCAS’ Zoom platform that will provide an opportunity for students to further engage the topic-at-hand through questions, comments, and further explanation or clarification by the instructor.

Required Texts: 

  • Dubois, J., F. Edeline, J. -M. Klinkenberg, P. Minguet, F. Pire, H. Trinon (Group μ).  A General Rhetoric, Tr. Paul B. Burrell and Edgar M. Slotkin,. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981, Chapter IV, pgs. 90-126.

  • Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol IV. Ed. James Strachey, Anna Freud, and Carrie Lee Rothgeb.  London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953, Chapter VI, pgs. 282-338 .

  • ________. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life  in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol VI. Ed. James Strachey, Anna Freud, and Carrie Lee Rothgeb.  London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953, Chapter I, pgs.1-7 .

  • Jakobson, Roman. “Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics.” Style in Language. Ed. Thomas Albert Sebeok. New York: M.I.T, pgs. 350-377.

  • ________“Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances” in Language and Literature, ed. Krystyna Pomorska and Sephen Rudy. Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1987, pgs. 95-114.

  • Lacan, Jacques. … Or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XIX. Tr. A. R. Price. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018, Session VI, pgs. 65-77. (Note: You will not easily understand much of this text. We will dissect it in detail in both the recorded and live sessions.)

  • ________. The Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book V. Tr. Russel Grigg. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017, Sessions II- III, pgs. 20-56.

  • Neill, Calum. “Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis” in Theory & Psychology, Vol. 23(3), 2013, pgs. 334-350.

  • de Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. Tr. Wade Baskin. Ed. Perry Meisel and Haun Saussy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959, Part 1, Chs. 1-2, pgs. 65-78.