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Big Words
Which Comes First?
The Elements of Critical Thinking
Binaries
100
Freud vs. Lacan
What are the following: one person with arrows pointing to his head vs. two persons with arrows between them to signifiy discourse?
100
Ironclad ungulate. See 386.
What is a war horse (386)?
100
Henry goes to Jerusalem; Henry gets sick
What is "Henry gets sick"? Remember that "Jerusalem" the room in his castle where he dies.
100
"How, then, can we formulate an approach that will avail itself of insights drawn from psychoanalysis while blocking the epigenetic fallacy illustrated in the examples discussed above? See 372.
What is the question at issue for the article?
100
Opposite of epigenesis
What is discourse?
200
Relationship among reader/audience/text/author/actor/director. See 366.
What is a triangle with reader/audience, text/author, and actor/director at the 3 points (366)?
200
Means to find an instance of or to represent by an instance. See 374.
What is "instantiate" (374)?
200
Critique of the Freudian approach. An account of the theory of discourses.
What is "An account of the theory of discourses"?
200
To use passages from The Henriad to advance a theory of reading that emphasizes the Lacanian approach, especially as regards "discourse."
What is Berger's purpose?
200
Cultural vs. the individual: the more fundamental in Berger's view
What is culture? Berger says that culture > the individual.
300
Proper order among character, passage, and speaker.
What is passage (meaning) --> speaker (psychology)--> character (effect)? Note the effect of the reader/audience at each of these stages. Berger doesn't say so, but his article is reader-response criticism.
300
Dictionary.com: "one of a number of related doctrines which hold that there are necessary properties of things, that these are logically prior to the existence of the individuals which instantiate them, and that their classification depends upon their satisfaction of sets of necessary conditions"
What is "essentialism"? A simpler definition: genetics = destiny. Berger is against essentialism.
300
Discussion of ethical vs. positional. Discussion of irony.
What is "Discussion of ethical vs. positional"?
300
"the donor, the victim/ revenger, the sinner, the villain, the hero, and the saint or martyr" (379).
What are alternatives within the concept of ethical discourse?
300
What ails Falstaff vs. what ails Henry IV
What is disease vs. dis-ease?
400
Proper symbols to use between positional and ethical and between ethical and positional. See 384.
What are positional --> ethical (positional comes first); and ethical > positional (ethical is "more fundamental" on 384)?
400
Idea that characters have an inner life that stems from family romance/drama. See 367.
What is the "epigenetic model" (367)?
400
For Berger: the chicken versus the egg.
What is "the chicken"? If you picked "the egg," you affirmed the epigenetic view that Berger criticizes.
400
Characters don't really exist until they speak.
What is Berger's Lacanian assumption?
400
"more sinned against than sinning" vs. more sinning than sinned against
What is victim vs. sinner/villain?
500
Relationship between implicit and explicit discourses. See 375.
What is a venn diagram (375)?
500
Reversal vs. discovery. See 389.
What are peripeteia and anagnorisis (389)?
500
In Lacanian view: character vs. utterance.
What is "utterance"?
500
"speakers should be treated as the effects rather than the causes of their language and our interpretation" (388).
What is Berger's conclusion?
500
Speech in which Henry IV both fears punishment and desires legitimization.
What is Henry's opening speech in _2H4_? See Berger 387.
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