Annotation
The focus of this seminar is Shakespeare's HAMLET in relation to the work of Freud, Lacan, Derrida & Heiner Muller.
*REQUIRED* READING:
William Shakespeare, HAMLET (Cambridge or Arden editions)
Sigmund Freud, THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS (V.D.264-6) *(Letter From Freud to Fliess, September 21, 1897) http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/MythLitMA/FreudonOedipus.pdf
Jacques Lacan, "DESIRE & THE INTERPRETATION OF DESIRE IN HAMLET" https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Lacan_Desire_in_Hamlet.pdf
Jacques Derrida, SPECTRES OF MARX https://files.libcom.org/files/Derrida%20-%20Specters%20of%20Marx%20-%20The%20State%20of%20the%20Debt,%20the%20Work%20of%20Mourning%20and%20the%20New%20International.pdf
Heiner Muller, HAMLETMACHINE https://theater.augent.be/file/13
Louis Armand, "Hamlet/Machine," INCENDIARY DEVICES https://www.academia.edu/41844822/Incendiary_Devices
Louis Armand, "The Theatre of Alibis," EVENT-STATES https://www.academia.edu/41844920/EVENT_STATES
Jacques Derrida, "THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT" in Deconstruction is/in America ed. A. Haverkamp (New York, New York University Press, 1994): pp. 14-38.
Ernesto Laclau, "THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT" https://monoskop.org/images/8/88/Laclau_Ernesto_Emancipations_1996.pdf
Guy Debord, SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE https://monoskop.org/images/e/e4/Debord_Guy_Society_of_the_Spectacle_1970.pdf
SCHEDULE 5.10 INTRODUCTION 12.10 Freud 19.10 Lacan 26.10 Debord 2.11 Derrida 9.11 Derrida
*16.11 NO SEMINAR 23.11 Laclau
*30.11 NO SEMINAR 7.12 Muller
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ASSESSMENT 1. attendance + assigned readings 2. proactive weekly contributions to discussion 3. essay (3,000 words, due 10 January 2024) (for an extended credit, either 2 essays of 3,000 words or one essay of 6,000 words): topics must be agreed in advance & must be related to seminar topics.
NB students are required to have recently read Hamlet *before the first session of the seminar* & are required to have a copy of the text with them for consultation & close-reading during the entire seminar.