POST STRUCTURALISM
MASSIVE STUDENT AND WORKER PROTESTS OCCURED IN FRANCE DURING THIS DECADE AND BROUGHT ABOUT AN INTEREST IN 'RADICAL IDEAS'.
WHEN IS 1960S?
THOUGH HIS IDEAS PEAKED MUCH LATER, SIGMUND FREUD BEGAN MODERN PSYCHOANALYSIS BY PUBLISHING THE 'INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS' IN THIS TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY YEAR.
WHEN IS 1900?
THIS IS THE YEAR THAT FRENCH FEMINIST AND LITERARY CRITIC HELENE CIXOUS WAS BORN.
WHEN IS 1937?
THIS IS THE YEAR THE ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED AND ENDED WW2, RAPIDLY ACCELERATING POSTMODERN THINKING AND SKEPTICISM.
WHEN IS 1945?
THIS FRENCH PHILOSOPHER ANALYZED THE DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN 'POWER AND KNOWLEDGE' THROUGH EXAMINING HOW SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS POLICE 'TRUTH'.
WHO IS MICHAEL FOUCAULT?
JACQUES LACAN DESCRIBED THIS EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT STAGE WHERE AN INFANT FIRST VISUALLY RECOGNIZES THEMSELVES, CREATING A UNIFIED (FALSE) SENSE OF SELF.
WHAT IS THE MIRROR STAGE?
THIS IS THE TITLE OF HELENE CIXOUS 1975 ESSAY THAT URGED WOMEN TO USE THEIR BODIES AND VOICES TO REBEL AGAINST PATRIARCHAL LANGUAGE.
WHAT IS THE LAUGH OF THE MEDUSA?
THIS FRENCH PHILOSOPHER WROTE 'THE POSTMODERN CONDITION' AND DEFINED THE ERA BY ITS DEEP SKEPTICISM TOWARDS 'GRAND TRUTHS'?
WHO IS JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD?
AS BOTH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ARE SUBJECT TO THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERANCE, THIS IS WHAT DIFFERENCIATES LITERATURE FROM OTHER LANGUAGE USE IN TERMS OF ITS FAILINGS.
WHAT IS ESTABLISHING CLOSURE?
THIS IS THE IDEOLOGY THAT CENTERS THE 'MALE SEXUAL ORGAN' AS THE OVERPOWERING SYMBOL POWER, AUTHORITY, AND PRIVELEGE.
WHAT IS PHALLOCENTRISM?
THIS IS THE FRENCH TERM FOR CIXOUS' FEMININE WRITING THAT WAS MEANT TO ESCAPE PATRIARCHAL RESTRICTIONS.
WHAT IS ECRITURE FEMININE?
LYOTARD CLAIMED AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT POSTMODERNISM'S ABSENCE OF METANARRATIVES WOULD PRODUCE THIS.
WHAT IS UNSOLVABLE DILEMMAS?
THIS IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THE PARADOX HANS BERTENS USED TO EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF 'DIFFERANCE' THAT EXPOSES THE UNDECIDABILITY BENEATH ALL STRUCTURED THOUGT.
WHAT IS THE EPIMENIDES PARADOX?
THESE TWO REPEATEDLY MENTIONED PHILOSOPHER AND PSYCHOANALYST DUO DESCRIBED THE CONCEPT OF 'THE BODY WITHOUT ORGANS', DESCRIBING THE HUMAN BODY BEING STRIPPED OF TRADITIONAL ORGANIZATION, LEAVING BEHIND FREE-FLOWING DESIRE.
WHO IS GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI?
IN HER 1975 ESSAY, THIS IS THE BODILY FLUID THAT CIXOUS DECLARES WOMEN MUST WRITE WITH FOR THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN'S WRITING.
WHAT IS MOTHER'S MILK?
THIS IS HOW AMERICAN CRITIC FREDRIC JAMESON SPECIFICALLY DEFINED POST-MODERNISM.
WHAT IS 'THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM'?