Fall
2003

ISF100B

 Syllabus
go to Home
go to Overview
currently at Syllabus
go to Reading
go to Review
go to Resources
?
?

Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

R Reading for the week

Week I: Aug 26 - 28
  R

Al Farabi's Outline: On the Perfect State (in Class Reader)
The Freud Reader
129-172 The interpretation of dreams, On Dreams
297-301 Family Romances
572-584 The Unconscious
  1 Brief History of the Unconscious
   
  • Medieval Islamic Political Philosophy
  • De anima and Citizenship
  • The Science of the Soul (ulum al nafs)
  2 Early Modern Rationalists and The End of Dreams
   
  • Descartes Traite des Passions
  • Spinoza’s Ethics
  • Vico’s Scienza nuova
    top
Week II: Sept 2-4
  R The Freud Reader
594-626 Beyond the Pleasure Principle
  3 Philosophy and Religion in the 19th Century
   
  • Nietzsche's "God is Dead"
  • The Will to Power and Colonialism
  • Capitalism and the Biological Unconscious
  4 Europe's Desires: the Production of Weapons for Profit
   
  • Melancholia and Violence
  • Europe and the Return of Instincts
  • Individualization
    top
Week III: Sept 9-11
  R

The Freud Reader
239-293 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
628-661 The Ego and the Id
Irigaray, This Sex which is not one
34-68 Psychoanalytic Theory: Another Look
  5 Freud and the European Family
   
  • Health and Illness
  • Psychoanalytic Principles
  • Hysterical Women
  6 Freud and Europe's Intellectual Elites
   
  • The Centrality of the Body
  • Knowledge and Interest
  • Privileges of Sublimation

Week IV: Sept 16-18
  R

The Freud Reader
626- 628 Group Psychology and the Ego
481-514 Totem and Taboo
443-481 Leonardo da Vinci

  7 Individuals, Groups, and Culture
   
  • Pre-fascist Germany: Freud, Culture, and Religion
  • Disenchantment of Northern Sociology
  • Enchanting South of Anthropology
  8

Freud, Culture, and Religion
   
  • Art and Philosophy
  • Judaism, Christianity, and Hinduism
  • Modern States
    top
Week V: Sept 23-25
  R The Freud Reader
522-539 The Moses of Michelangelo
685-722 The Future of an Illusion
722-772 Civilization and its Discontents
Edward Said, in Class-Reader:Freud and the Non-
European
  9 Europe 1900 and Geopolitics
   
  • Freud's Moses and Monotheism
  • Freud and Einstein
  • Freud's Africa and Jung's Asia
  10 Colonialism and Nationalism
   
  • Psychoanalystic Knowledge and Politics
  • Weber's Concept of Differentiation
  • Disinterested Science
    top
Week VI: Sept 30-Oct 2
  R

In Class-Reader:
Reich: The Authoritarian Ideology of the Family in the Mass Psychology of Fascism (40 pp)
Horkheimer: Authority and the Family ( 80pp)
Volosinov: The Basic Ideological Motif of Freudianism (8pp )
  11 Critical Theory: the Management of Modern Societies
   
  • Traditional Theory and Critical Theory
  • Marxist Explanations of Fascism
  • Institutions and Repression
  12 Authority and Violence
   
  • The Production of Violence in the Family
  • The Production of Violence in the State
  • Screening of Riefenstahl's: The Triumph of the Will
    top
Week VII: Oct 7-9
  R Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
  13 Consumerism and the Poverty of Pleasure
   
  • The Global North: 1945-1970
  • Principles of Fun
  • Small is Beautiful
  14 Children of Affluence
   
  • Screening: Advertisements
  • Democratic Choices
  • A World of Men
    top
Week VIII: Oct 14-16
    Midterm Exam Week
    Oct 14 : Review
    Oct 16 : Midterm Exam
    top
Week IX: Oct 21-23
  R The Irigaray Reader
77-104 The Poverty of Psychoanalysis
105-117 The Limits of Transference
118-132 The Power of Discourse
This Sex which is not one
86-105 Cosi fan tutti
  15 Modern Cultures and the Linguistic Turn
   
  • From and Lacan
  • Freud's Power in North America
  • Patriarchy and Universal Unhappiness
  16 The Multiple Spaces of Patriarchalist Power
   
  • Law and Discourse
  • Language and Spaces
  • Knowledge Organization
    top
Week X: Oct 28-30
  R

M. Whitford,The Irigaray Reader
This sex which is not one 119-169 Questions
Class-Reader: renate holub on "Lacan"
  17 The Production of a Subject
   
  • Historical Difficulties
  • The Structure of Emotions
  • Time and Memory
  18 From the North to the South
   
  • Screening of Film on Aime Cesaire
    top
Week XI: Nov 4-6
  R W.E.B Du Bois
Dusk of Dawn: The Autobiography of a Race Concept
  19 Gender, Race, Class
   
  • The construction of Pain
  • The Production of Consent
  • The Link between North America and Africa
  20 Colonialism and Racism
   
  • Du Bois and Africa
  • The Psychology of Race
  • From Fragmentation to Groundedness
    top
Week XII: Nov 11-13
  R

Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
  21 The Control of Images and the Promise of Art
   
  • The Caribbean and the Metropolis
  • Pain in Algiers
  • Collective Unconscious
  22 Screening: The Battle of Algiers
   
  • The Battle of Algiers
    top
Week XIII: Nov 18-20
  R

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin and White Masks
Class-Reader:
Ashis Nandy, The Savage Freud, (60pp)
Daryush Shayegan, Cultural Schizophrenia, (50 pp)
  23 Colonial Spaces and Religion
   
  • The colony and the metropolis
  • Psychoanalysis and India
  • Knowledge and Colonial Subjects
  24 Between Two Worlds
   
  • The Unconscious of Modernity
  • Two Paradigms
  • Suffering and Religion
    top
Week XIV: Nov 25-27
  R Class-Reader
Mamphela Ramphele, Political Widowhood in South Africa
Tu Wei-ming, Maoism as a Source of Social Suffering in China,
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, IN CR: "The Culture of Hejab"
  25 The Psychic Structure of Geopolitics
   
  • Geographies of Feeling
  • Collective Suffering
  • The Psychology of Defeat
  * Thanksgiving: Nov 27 - No Class
    top
Week XV: Dec 2-4
  R John Brown Childs, Transcommunality
  26 The Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-Violence
   
  • Models for Ungrounding Violence
  • The Construction of an Ethics of Respect
  • The Dignity of Dialogue
  * Review
    top
   
 
last updated: 08/10/2003