ENG 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Crisis, The Symbolic, Jacques Lacan
14 May 2018
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Maria Konovalyuk 02.26
Alice in Wonderland
- Mini imperialist with set of rules and values
CHAPTER 1
- Alice and sister on bank: their activities
- Rabbit lateness and Alice’s curiosity
- The endless fall: entering another world.state, or phase of development (fall from grace)
- In the middle of child and adult phase
- Alice’s grasp of practical knowledge: linguistic, geographic rules (rules of physical
behavior abrogated)
- Door to garden: locks and keys incompatible
- Belief in the impossible; expecting out-of-the-way things to happen (the child’s vision)
- Alice: shutting up like a telescope, going out altogether like a candle, endless fall down
the rabbit hole
- Amphibious Alice boxing own ears: she’s both child and adult
CHAPTER 2
- Abandonment of what we consider universal rules: language, physical behavior, stability
of identity
- Alice begins to forget lessons, laws, and conception of her own identity: identity crisis
(spiritual crisis)
- As alice grows larger she grows dumber
- More near-death experiences, shrinking away altogether, drowning in own tears,
discussion of cats and mice
- Problems with language in Wonderland: imperialist Alice
Wonderland
- Death freakishly avoideD:
- Fall down the rabbit hole
- Closing up like a telescope
- Going out like a candle
- Drowning in tears
- Hounded by the dog
- Turtle’s lessons/lessens
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Document Summary
Mini imperialist with set of rules and values. Alice and sister on bank: their activities. The endless fall: entering another world. state, or phase of development (fall from grace) In the middle of child and adult phase. Alice"s grasp of practical knowledge: linguistic, geographic rules (rules of physical behavior abrogated) Door to garden: locks and keys incompatible. Belief in the impossible; expecting out-of-the-way things to happen (the child"s vision) Alice: shutting up like a telescope, going out altogether like a candle, endless fall down the rabbit hole. Amphibious alice boxing own ears: she"s both child and adult. Abandonment of what we consider universal rules: language, physical behavior, stability of identity. Alice begins to forget lessons, laws, and conception of her own identity: identity crisis (spiritual crisis) As alice grows larger she grows dumber. More near-death experiences, shrinking away altogether, drowning in own tears, discussion of cats and mice. Problems with language in wonderland: imperialist alice.
