Only use these 3 for information and to answer the 2 questions.
Eagleton Terry: Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford Blackwell,1996 pg 131-168
* Lacan, Jacques@ The insistence of the letter in the unconscious. Trans Jan Miel. Yale French Studies 1966 pg 112-147
* Brooks, Peter. Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding ‘Reading for the plot Cambridge, Mass Harvard UP, 1992. Pg 264-285
Q1) In his @Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious’ Lacan recounts the story of a boy and girl arriving by a train at a station. Lacan uses this story to illustarte that language (and the relationship between signifier and signifed) is innately figurative and non referential. HOw does the story worl to illustrate this? Think carefully about the language of the story. Lacan argues that human subjectivity is constituted by the moment of entry into language. Can this story be read as a fable of this process? From Psychoanalytic point of view, what is the significance of the fact that while the little boy perceives ‘ladies at the moment of entry into language, the little girl perceives Gentlemen?
Q2)Think about the development of ideas that we have traced from NEW CRITICISM to PSYCHOANALYSIS. Pay particular attention to the way in which Saussure’s theorisation of semiotics, particulary of the arbitrary nature of signs, has influenced Structuralism , Deconstruction and now Psychoanalysis. What other basic theoretical premises are common to all of these modalities?