Poetry and Savior-Faire with Daniel Heller-Roazen at Après-Coup

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, November 21, 2014
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

POETRY AND SAVOIR-FAIRE: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM SAUSSURE AND JAKOBSON, PART II, Foundations of Psychoanalysis
DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN

This presentation will investigate what Saussure’s and Jakobson’s interests in literature can teach us today about poetry, savoir-faire, and the “faculty of speech,” which, in Jakobson’s terms, “functions without knowing itself.”

SUGGESTED READINGS: Jean Starobinski, “Words upon Words,” ch. 2 of Words upon Words (Yale U. Press, 1979); Roman Jakobson, “Linguistics and Poetics,” in Selected Writings III, pp. 18-51.

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