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.

Davis, Diane. "Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are." In Inessential Solidarity. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

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. Rhetoric of Tropes” and “Rhetoric of Persuasion” in Allegories of Reading. Yale UP, 1979.

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

Felman, Shoshana. The Scandal of the Speaking Body. Stanford UP, 2003.

Freud, Sigmund. "Psychical Treatment." In 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 Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886-1899) SE 1: 73-88

Ronell, Avital."The Rhetoric of Testing." In Stupidity. U of Illinois P, 2002.

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