Dissident Desires and Pleasures in Bohemian New York

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The course will explore the bending, folding, and twisting incoherencies of desire, from the psychoanalytic mappings of Freud (Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality) and Klein (Love, Hate, and Reparation) to the reappraisals of Deleuze and Guattari (Anti-Oedipus), and Foucault. Moving away from the normal and the universal toward what Lauren Berlant calls “more expansive and generous sociabilities and worlds,” we will engage a set of Bohemian New York writers, potentially including Poe, Winthrop (Cecil Dreeme), Whitman, Barnes, Henri-Ford and Tyler, Ginsberg, and Delany.