C.G. Jung Institut Küsnacht/ZH, Frühlingssemester 2011
Dr. David Signer
PD Dr. Jürg von Ins
Seminar in englischer Sprache
Montag, 20.6.2011, 16.05-19.50
Dienstag, 21.6.2011, 18.05-19.50
Mittwoch, 22.6.2011, 18.05-19.50
Donnerstag, 23.6.2011, 18.05-19.50
„Love is not a victory march,
it is a cold and a broken hallelujah.“
Leonard Cohen
Nothing compares to love, to fall in love, Amor’s arrow. Is it a sickness no one knows to cure, or is it a remedy, „the only engine of survival“? No wonder love is one of the main subjects in literature. But why is love almost absent in anthropology? Social scientists are obsessed with gender-issues, but love itself seems to be either too banal or too intensive as a theme. In this seminary we are going to have a close watch at some literary and ethnological works, between western and non-western, subjectiv and objectiv, emic and etic, artistic and scientific perspectives. We will focus thereby on the question of universal and culture-specific aspects of love, which means to embed love in its social, historical, economical and religious contexts.
* These books have already been reserved by participants.
Erotology
*Philippe Ariès/André Béjin/Michel Foucault 1984: The masks of desire and the metamorphoses of sensuality
Michel Foucault 1976-1992: History of sexuality, 3 vols., London
*Georges Bataille 1986: Erotism
Roland Barthes 1988 (1977): Love’s discourse
Jung, C. G. (1912). HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_the_Unconscious” \o “Psychology of the Unconscious” Psychology of the Unconscious : a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido, a contribution to the history of the evolution of thought. trans. Hinkle, B. M. (1916), London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. (revised in 1952 as HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_Transformation” \o “Symbols of Transformation” Symbols of Transformation, Collected Works Vol.5 HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0691018154″ ISBN 0-691-01815-4)
Sigmund Freud 1982: Civilization and its Discontents (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur). In: Studienausgabe Band IX, Frankfurt a.M.
Sigmund Freud 1898: Sexuality In The Aetiology Of The Neuroses (therein specially: 1912: On The Universal Tendency To Debasement In The Sphere Of Love (Über die allgemeinste Erniedrigung des Liebeslebens)
Ethnology of Eros and its functions
Margaret Mead 1935: Sexuality and temperament in three primitive societies, 3 vol.
Margaret Mead 1949: Male and female
Marjorie Shostak 1981: Nisa – the life and words of a !Kung woman
Bronislaw Malinowski 1929: The sexual life of savages in North-West Melanesia, New York
Suzanne LaFont/Dianne Hubbard (Hrsg.) 2007: Unravelling Taboos. Gender and Sexuality in Namibia. Windhoek.
Philippe Talavera 2002: Challenging the Namibian Perception of Sexuality. Windhoek
Nawal el Saadawi 1980: The hidden face of Eve – Women in the Arab world, London
Shmuley Boteach 2000: Kosher Sex – a recipe for passion and intimacy, Main Street Books
Ernest Bornemann 1968: The Man who loved Women
Id. 1985: Rot-weiß-rote Herzen. Das Liebes-, Ehe- und Geschlechtsleben der Alpenrepublik. 2. Aufl., Wien
Maria Silvia Bazzoli und Christian Lelong 2008: Amour, sexe et mobylette. Documentary film. Frankreich/Deutschland/Burkina Faso. 95 Min.
Questionning the feasability of love
Agrippa von Nettesheim 1898: De occulta philosophia/ Three books of occult philosophy or Magic, Chicago
Martin Schmidt, ‘Pietism,’ The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church, 3 vols., ed. Julius Bodensieck, Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1965, III
*Mallanaga Vatsyayana o.J. (ca. 250): The Kamasutra, http://www.bharatadesam.com/literature/vatsyayana_kamasutras/vatsyayana_kamasutra_index.php
William Shakespeare 1623: Anthony and Cleopatra. http://www.maximumedge.com/shakespeare/antonycleopatra.htm
Giacomo Casanova 1966-1971: The history of my life; translated by Willard R. Trask, New York
Montesquieu 1899 (1721): Persian letters, translated by HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davidson_(poet)” \o “John Davidson (poet)” John Davidson. A 2002 online version prepared by Ronald Schechter and his students is available at HYPERLINK “http://www.wm.edu/history/rbsche/plp/” http://www.wm.edu/history/rbsche/plp/
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1981: Chronicle of a death foretold
Id. 1988: Love in the time of cholera, New York
Ama Ata Aidoo 1991: HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Changes:_A_Love_Story&action=edit&redlink=1″ \o “Changes: A Love Story (page does not exist)” Changes: A Love Story
Richard Burton transl. 1885: The Book of the thousand Nights and a Night. 6 vol. http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/
Prosper Mérimée 2005 (1847): Carmen, Zürich
*William Somerset Maugham 1924: The Force of Circumstance
Love as an Ideal
*Niklas Luhmann 2008: Liebe – eine Übung. Frankfurt a.M. (Love – An exercise)
*Diane Wolkenstein und Samuel Noah Kramer 1983: Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth. New York
(King Salomo) 2007: The Song of Songs (Das Hohelied) In: Zürcher Bibel. Zürich
Platon: Phaidros; http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/
Id.: Symposion; http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/
Nizami 1966 (1188): The Story of Layla and Majnun, translated by Rudolf Gelpke in collaboration with E. Mattin and G. Hill, Omega Publications, ISBN #0-930872-52-5.
Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1180) : Lancelot and Ginevere
Gottfried von Strassburg (ca. 1210): Tristan.
William Shakespeare 1597: Romeo and Juliet. http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Romeo_and_Juliet/index.html
Victor Hugo 1996 (1831): The Hunchback of Notre Dame, HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number” \o “International Standard Book Number” ISBN HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7607-0168-7″ \o “Special:BookSources/0-7607-0168-7″ 0-7607-0168-7.
*Rainer Maria Rilke 1955 (1899): The Tale of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke
Luise Rinser 1991: Abelard’s Love.
*Octavio Paz 1995: Die doppelte Flamme. Frankfurt a.M.
Mariama Bâ 1980: So long a Letter.
Laurence Sterne 2010 (1768): A sentimental Journey through France and Italy. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/804
*D.H. Lawrence 1928: Lady Chatterley’s lover, Florence
Tschingis Aitmatow 1962: Dshamilja. Frankfurt a.M.
*Tony Kushner 1993/1994: Angels in America: Screenplay
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