Texts

Austin, J.L. How to do things with Words. Harvard UP, 2003. Lectures 1-3 & 10

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Analytic Speech: From a Restricted to a General Rhetoric.” The Emotional Tie: Psychoanalysis, Mimesis, and Affect. Trans. Douglas Brick et al. Stanford UP, 1992: 62-74

Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. Routledge, 1997.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. "Postulates of Linguistics." A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota, 1993: 75-110

de Man, Paul. "Autobiography as Defacement." Rhetoric of Romanticism. Columbia UP, 1984: 67-82

Derrida, Jacques. Limited Inc. Trans. Samuel Weber and Jeffery Mehlman. Northwestern UP, 1997.

Freud, Sigmund. "Psychical Treatment" A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality, and Other Works (1901 - 1905) SE 7: 283-307.

Freud, Sigmund. Preface to Bernheim's Suggestive Therapeutics. Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886-1899) SE 1: 73-88

Gorgias. "Encomium of Helen" (edition TBA)

Lacan, Jacques. “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis.” Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Norton, 1977: 30-113. Selection TBA

Plato. Phaedrus (Sections TBA)

Ronell, Avital. "Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas." Introduction to 25 th anniversary edition of Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto. Verso, 2004: 1-31

Ronell, Avital. "The Sujet Suppositaire." Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium. Nebraska UP, 1994: 105-128

Searle, John. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge UP, 1997. Lectures TBA