English 420: Critical Theory
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Reserve Reading
> Freud and After: Problems in Modern Subjectivity
Reserve Reading
Sigmund Freud, "
The Structure of the Unconcious
," "
The Instincts
," "
The Oedipus Complex
," "
The Origins of Culture
" (all four in one document), and "
The Dream-Work
" (highly recommended--try to read at least one or two of the preceding selections)
Jacques Lacan, "
The Mirror Stage
" (required)
Frantz Fanon, excerpts from
Black Skin, White Masks
(required)
Rosario Ferré, "
The Youngest Doll
" (required)
Selected Web Resources
"
The Nature of the Self
" (k.i.s.s. of the panopticon)
David Brooks, "
The Social Animal
" (
New Yorker
17 January 2011)
Althusser
k.i.s.s of the panopticon
(Dougie Bicket)
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
(Dino Franco Felluga)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Wikipedia
Louis Althusser archive
(Marxists.org)
Lacan
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
(Dino Franco Felluga)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Wikipedia
Notes
on Lacan's "Mirror Stage" (Mary Klages, Colorado U)
Fanon
Deborah Wyrick, from
Fanon for Beginners
(soon come)
"
Frantz Fanon
" (Jennifer Poulos, Postcolonial Studies, Emory U)
"
Frantz Fanon: An Overview
" (Benjamin Graves, Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature, National U of Singapore)
Books and Writers
(Petri Liukkonen)
Rosario Ferre
Wikipedia
e-Notes
Alternate version of "
The Youngest Doll
" (HSU users only)
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