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Syllabus Love, the Self, and Family

LOVE, THE SELF, AND FAMILY (1986-1989), directed by Guy Sircello (Philosophy).  Some themes on Love; the Self; and Family.

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Some Themes on Love: Professors Guy Sircello, Dayle Nunez, John Smith. 
Texts included Plato: Symposium; Ovid: Art of Love; Gottfried: Tristan and Isolde; Cervantes: Don Quixote; Goethe: Faust; Foucault: History of Sexuality; Walker: The Color Purple.

The Self: Professors Richard Frank, David Smith, Albert Wlecke. 
Texts included Virgil: The Aeneid; Augustine: Confessions; Descartes: Meditations; Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Freud: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Kauffmann: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre; Beauvoir: The Second Sex.

Family: Professors Mark Poster, Leslie Rabine, Bin Wong. 
Texts included Stone: The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England; Kingston: Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts; Poster: Critical Theory of the Family; Lasch: Haven in a Heartless World; Freud: New Introductory Lectures; Chodorow: Reproduction of Mothering; Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood; Ning Lao T’ai=tai: A Daughter of Han: Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman; Pa Chin: Family; Stacey: Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China. 

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