ENG 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sarah Kofman, Arbitrariness, Maltese Lira
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I am giving you a small excerpt from my own book on psychoanalytic theory (julia kristeva and literary. Theory, palgrave, 2005) to give some further context on the freudian discovery of the unconscious and its relation to the history of critical theory, before it and after. As you can see by the fact that my footnotes take up more space than my text, these references/connections are complex and multiform. For your purposes, pay attention to the names you already recognize, or will soon recognize (for instance, in the coming weeks, we will read saussure and foucault for ourselves). Nietzschean notion that true knowledge of the x, the thing-in-itself, the i in this case, is always already indirect and thus, in some essential sense, unknowable. Jacques lacan"s neat way of making this point, his clever rewriting of descartes" i think, therefore, i am. all bold typefacing below is my own.
