Freud and Derrida

From sexual difference to the difference writing makes, psychoanalysis and deconstruction have affected the way we think about reading, writing, learning. Both have become parts of cultural discourse in the form of catch phrases, categories of understanding, and political indictments. Psychoanalysis and deconstruction are also markers of a long conversation in which the meaning of subjectivity, authorship, agency, literature, culture and tradition is spelled out in detailed readings that intervene in and as dialogue and interruption. In this reading intensive class, we will attend to the basic texts and terms of psychoanalysis and deconstruction: the unconscious and sexuality, culture and religion, and more.