RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Julia Kristeva, Rat Man, Judith Butler
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Concepts and notions: primitive, dark continent, fetish, taboo: fetish was indigenous word, colonialists took the word and translated it into. Portuguese, used to describe primitive traditions of indigenous people, 19th century became the way to speak of unconscious in european culture. Artifacts and materials: couch, collectibles: freud"s collection of antiquities. Fascination with the (cid:498)other,(cid:499) science of the other (psychoanalysis) structural violence they imply. Political and cultural context of imperialism, colonialism, and the symbolic and. Strategy of argumentation: reconstruction of the particular context of universalist notions; looking into their global careers and recontextulizations in order to rethink them in new terms. Introduction p3 (cid:498)the unconscious of liberal humanism is not only its implicit categories of the inhuman but also the ego-id negotiation of boundaries between the human and the inhuman(cid:499) Liberal humanism does have its own unconscious. Text defines what is not human (there is a notion of human that excludes lots of human beings.
