Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, December 6, 2013
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
“Poetry and Savoir-faire: Questions and Answers from Saussure and Jakobson,” Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Daniel Heller-Roazen
Saussure is known as the founder of structural linguistics, yet in private he also studied poetry and proposed a daring theory about poets’ special knowledge of language. When revealed in the 1960s, his theory provoked general disbelief, with one great exception: linguist Roman Jakobson considered it perhaps Saussure’s greatest achievement.
SUGGESTED READINGS: Jean Starobinski, Words upon Words (Yale UP, 1979), chapter 1, “Concern for Repetition.” Roman Jakobson, “Subliminal Verbal Patterning in Poetry,” Poetics Today, Vol. 2, No. 1ª, autumn 1980, pp. 127-136.
MEETING PLACE: The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), New York City. Please ask at the front desk for the room number.
ATTENDANCE FEE: $20. For students with ID: $10.
Attendance is free for all members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.
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