Exam 2 terms

Question 1

Center

Answer 1

The point in which everything is referred to and holds things in place. - Jacques Derrida
Example: Kindergarten teacher

Question 2

Deconstruction

Answer 2

All language and meaning is arbitrary. - Jacques Derrida

Question 3

Binary Oppositions

Answer 3

Opposites of one another, with the left being the privileged side, and the right being the neglected side - Jacques Derrida
Good/Evil; Man/Woman

Question 4

Bricolage

Answer 4

A way of deconstruction. Realizing that the system is a construct and keeping everything in place. People who do this are called Bricoleurs. - Jacques Derrida
Engineer - Designs buildings with little to no play, and sees self as the center

Question 5

Pleasure principle; Reality Principle

Answer 5

Tells us to do what feels good; Tells us to submit in order to complete work. - Sigmund Freud
Wanting to hang out with friends; realizing you have studying to do.

Question 6

Sublimation

Answer 6

Take desires and energy that cant be fulfilled and push it somewhere else - Freud
Taking sexual energy and turn it into writing a paper

Question 7

Condensation; Displacement

Answer 7

A whole set of images packed into a single theme
- Freud
A Metaphor “Love is a rose and you’d better not pick it.”

Meaning of one image gets pushed into something associated with it - Freud
Metonymy - Evoke an image of a whole thing by naming part of it “The Crown” and meaning “The queen of England”

Question 8

Oedipus Complex

Answer 8

a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex; a crucial stage in the normal developmental process. - Freud

Question 9

Superego

Answer 9

Place where voices of authority and conscience reside. Morality is also shaped here.

Question 10

Real

Answer 10

A psychic place where there is no distinction between itself and the objects that satisfy its needs - Jacques Lacan

Question 11

Imaginary

Answer 11

The idea of a self is created through an imaginary identification with the image in a mirror - Lacan

Question 12

Mirror stage

Answer 12

Baby begins to anticipate being whole. Begins to understand that what it sees in the mirror is what it looks like in the real world - Lacan

Question 13

Symbolic

Answer 13

Structure of language itself, Must enter to become speaking subjects - Lacan

Question 14

Self

Answer 14

Selfs write texts and are essential, unchanging biology - Lacan

Question 15

Subjects

Answer 15

Vehicles for language and are fluid, arbitrary, and constructed - Lacan

Question 16

Humanist - Anglo-American Feminist View

Answer 16

Asks how women writers were discouraged from publishing works, Woman seen as “Mothers” of their works, and seeks to explain why there are so many forgotten women writers. Result is “Canonized” women writers - Sandra Gilbert/Susan Gubar

Question 17

Poststructuralist - French Feminist View

Answer 17

Sees woman as part of the binary opposition “Man/Woman” man is favored over woman. Right of the slash items are seen as “bad” and are oppressed.
-Helen Cixous/Judith Butler

Question 18

Phallogocentrism

Answer 18

Privlaging of Masculine in construction of meaning. - Lacan

Question 19

Logocentrism

Answer 19

the attitude that logos (the Greek term for speech, thought, law, or reason) is the central principle of language and philosophy.[3] Logocentrism is the view that speech, and not writing, is central to language - Lacan

Question 20

Transcendental Signified

Answer 20

Cross cultural signified. Part of structure, not subject to rules - Derrida

Question 21

Play

Answer 21

Outside of the center, one has more play with the definitions of signs - Derrida

Question 22

Law-of-the-Father

Answer 22

Submission to the rules of language itself. You must obey the rules of language if you want to speak it - Lacan

Question 23

Lack

Answer 23

What causes desire to arise. Is a lack spiritual emotional and physical connection experienced as an infant. Ex. Why adults don’t chew on everything. - Lacan

Question 24

other/Other

Answer 24

Actual “other” people/Structural postion

Question 25

Jouissance

Answer 25

Female orgasm - Ability of woman to to evade symbolic order. Example: slant writing - Helene Cixous

Question 26

L’écriture feminine

Answer 26

A woman’s way of writing - Cixous

Question 27

Gender as a performance

Answer 27

Gender is a fantasy, as there is no “true gender” to go off of. One must