We discuss "The Garden of Proserpine" and the ways that it anticipates or instantiates Freud's idea of the death drive: all the repetitions in the poem. Then we turn to the poet most opposite in attitude: Hopkins, and talk briefly of "Pied Beauty" and "That Nature is a Heralcitean Fire." Discussion in Instress and the Duns-Scotian term haecicity that makes it possible, as opposed to Thomas Aquainas' universality. We'll finish considering Hopkins next class.
18. Peeping Tom, sort of but mainly Freud on instincts, pleasure, unpleasure, and scopophilia
23. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (briefly) and then "The Unfortunate Lover"
18. Vertigo and Freudian repetition
22. Marvell - The Garden
21. Marvell: Damon the Mower and The Garden
16. Other worlds and other minds in Source Code and Groundhog Day
20. Last class on Herbert: The Forerunners; The Pulley
19. George Herbert: Jordan (I), The Flower, Easter Wings, etc.
15. Source Code
14. Groundhog Day
18. First class on George Herbert
13. Skepticism and Zeno's paradoxes, again
17. 17th century poetry: a class on Robert Herrick
16. 17th c poetry, mainly Jonson's Cary-Morrison Ode
12. Film and Philosophy: Akerman's La Captive
11. Film and Philosophy
15, 17th Century Poetry: Ben Jonson, mainly "The Hourglass"
14. 17th C Poetry: Ben Jonson's songs
10. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley and Beckett's
13. 17th C Poetry: Trinity and then Ben Jonson
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