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Sigmund Freud developed theory of the interplay between..? |
Body, subjectivity and culture |
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Modern subjectivity is the result of what? |
Culturally determined process of human self domestication |
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According to Freud writing literature starts with what? |
Day dreaming |
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How does the dream constitute Freud‘s basic psychoanalytic model for the literary text? |
Writing of literature starts with day-dreaming In conscious phantasies the narcissistic wishes of the ego are imaginarily fulfilled |
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What happens when an infant recognises its mirror image? According to whom? |
Identifies with it as a narcisstic ideal ego with defined bodily boundaries -> premordial object becomes object of desire („the big other“) Lacan |
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What is the Oedipus complex? |
The moment of having to give up the desired object and replace it by other objects prefigures the Oedipus Complex Unconscious desire for mother/son and father/daughter Identification with the same sex parent |
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What is Shoshana Felman‘s point of view? |
Psychoanalysis and literature must be regarded as two distinct yet overlapping practices of reading and writing All readings construct meaning for a subject and find their limit in the „unreadability“ As psychoanalysis demonstrated: desire does not follow from gender |
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What does critical race mean? |
Psychic functions of social hierachies in which racialised subjects figure as a threatening Symbolic hierarchy or race vs. whiteness in hegemonic culture and society by fashioning distinct and coherent social identities for racialised subjects and whites Whites identify with other whites on the basis of their common difference fromm the racialised |
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Accordingto Freud: what are the similarities between dreams and literature? |
Structural parallels between dreaming, phantasizing and writing -Literary characters = patiens -Actions and utterances = neurotic symptoms Relation between authors personal life and symptomatic character in literary work Psychoanalytic theory of reader‘s responses to literary texts |
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What is the difference between Lacan‘s concepts of the imaginary and the symbolic? |
Imaginary: focused on identification |
