| 0626.2097 אהבה חצרונית בספרות ובפסיכואנליזה Courtly Love in Literature and Psychoanalysis | |
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| ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר Sharon-Zisser, Dr. Shirley | שו"ת |
| Courtly love is a literary and cultural tradition, centering on the erotic relation between an inaccessible (usually female) beloved and a wretched male lover which flourished in Europe of the eleventh to fourteenth centuries, but whose influence extends throughout the English Renaissance and informs psychic structures and representations of love into our times. The formal and thematic characteristics of this tradition have been amply documented by scholars. And yet, Jacques Lacan says in one of the returns he makes to the category of courtly love in the course of his teaching, “remains enigmatic.” What psychic structure(s) is/are at stake in the phenomenon of courtly love that has come to us mainly through literature? Why were these psychic structures inscribed mainly in literary form? What might courtly love teach us about the relationship between literature (specifically poetry) and neurosis, neurosis and writing? How are all these connected with the aesthetic and formal, and especially the rhetorical, properties of courtly love? How might the phenomenon of courtly love nuance and modify our understanding of sublimation and its relation with the sublime? What are the implications of courtly love literature for our understanding of the impossibility of a rapport between the sexes, especially when this literature is counterpointed with another literary tradition alongside which it flourished in Renaissance England – that of pastoral?
The seminar will explore these questions via acquaintance with basic texts of the courtly love tradition, including Ovid’s Art of Love, Andreas Capelanus’s the Art of Courtly Love, manifestations of courtly love in the English literary tradition, from medieval romance through the Petrarchan poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Wyatt, and others, and through the anti-Petrachism of Shakespeare and Renaissance pastoralists. Our conceptual guides will be Lacan’s meditation on courtly love in his seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis, as compared with his earlier meditations of love in the first seminars, and his return to courtly love in his twentieth seminar on love and woman’s jouissance. Requirements: mid-term exam, term-paper | |
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