מעודכן ליום ראשון 21 באוגוסט 2005

0626.3049  המועקה בספרות ובפסיכואנליזה Anxiety in Psychoanalysis and Literature
ד"ר שירלי שרון-זיסר Sharon-Zisser, Dr. Shirleyסמינר ב"א BA Seminar
“Anxiety is the one affect that does not lie” Jacques Lacan claims in his seminar of 1962-1963, devoted to this concept. This is because anxiety – not anxiety in the common psychiatric sense of object-less dread but in the Freudian sense of Angst which, Lacan says, “is not without an object,” is the only affect which has to do with the real, with the lost object exceeding representation.
How might one conceptualize anxiety? What are its relations to representation, a category central at once to psychoanalysis and to the act of literature? How can the concept of anxiety help us understand categories of representation that logically precede signifiers which have a lexical, semantic sense? What consequences do theorizations of anxiety in the works of Freud and Lacan have for our understanding of various problems of the aesthetic? What are the consequences of the psychoanalytic thinking of anxiety for the ethics of interpretation? What are the aesthetic manifestations of anxiety (on the level of form, not content), and how do they differ in accordance with the field of the drive (oral, scopic, written), or with the artistic genre (drama, visual art, poetry, prose) in which they manifest themselves?
The seminar will explore these and other questions relating to anxiety and the aesthetic, taking as a guide Lacan’s tenth seminar and Freud’s writings on anxiety, including the early writings on anxiety neurosis, and Symptoms, Inhibitions, and Anxiety. Literary case-studies will be selected from the works of Shakespeare and other Renaissance poets.

Requirements: class presentation, project pursued throughout the semester, seminar paper
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