Critical Theory & Praxis - AAALE028A

• Title: Teorie a praxe kritiky
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 20 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Louis Armand, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (01.10.2023)

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.