CLS4070 - Lacan and subjectivity
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Alison Ross
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
Lacan's accounts of the ego, subjectivity and otherness; the unconscious and desire 'structured like a language'; the phallus and sexual difference. Relevance to philosophical accounts of subjectivity, theories of literary and visual representation, and feminist theory.
Assessment
Seminar paper (3000 words): 20%
Essay (6000 words) or two essays (3000 words): 80%
Contact hours
2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week
Prerequisites
CRT2050/3050 or PHL3050; or CRT2060/3060 or PHL3060
Prohibitions
06 July 2009
06 July 2009