2024-2025 Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro's seminar: Phantasy

The seminar is conceived and offered by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

The seminar from Confluence to Confluence

Seminar participants second year: Alkmini Gkousiari, Foad Alijani, Helena Estrela, Lisa Vlamings

Seminar participants first year: 

Phantasy

INTRODUCTION

Phantasy has numerous meanings. It has been defined as the innate, mental image of an
object, our immediate experience mediated by the imagination, a symbolic function, and
the consciousness of absence or what is yet to come. The course will investigate late seminars by the philosopher and mathematician, Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). Our studies will concentrate on the collected volume Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory (1898-1925) to reflect on presentation, re-presentation, succession, discontinuity, and intention. The seminar will sail away from continental philosophy, flowing into collective writing and analysis, thesis development, peer review, and a perception diary.

Readings:

Edmund Husserl. Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory. Tr. by John B. Brough. Springer, 2005.

Frantz Fanon. Alienation and Freedom. Tr. by Steven Corcoran. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Fredric Jameson. The Political Unconscious: Narrative As a Socially Symbolic Act. Routledge, 1981.

Mahmoud Sami Ali. Corps réel, corps imaginaire. Fragments. Tr. by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, 2024.

Nise de Silveira. Imagens do inconsciente. Fragments. Tr. by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, 2024.

Samuel Delaney. Driftglass. Penguin Classics, 2021.