Tiresias and the Critic : 18th October 1966 (Baltimore, USA) : René Girard
by Julia Evans on October 18, 1966
Presented at an international symposium, entitled ‘The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man’, at The Johns Hopkins Center, Baltimore, USA, on 18th – 21st October 1966.
Presenter: René Girard
Description of René Girard as in 1970
René Girard is the former chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at The Johns Hopkins University and one of the organizers of the Symposium. He has written widely on topics in French literature and is currently concerned with the psychological and philosophical implications of the Oedipus myth.
Title: Tiresias and the Critic
Availability: Copy (p15-21) available here
All the contributions to this symposium are published in : ‘The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man : the Structuralist Controversy’ : 18th to 21st October 1966 (Baltimore, USA) : Richard Macksey & Eugenio Donato (Eds) : The Johns Hopkins Press Baltimore and London: 1970
Information here
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Earl’s Court, London
Further posts:
By René Girard here
Some Lacanian history : here
Lacanian Transmission : here
Ethics here
Of the clinic : here
Translation Working Group here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud : here
Or by Jacques Lacan : here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
