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Write a few sentences summarizing the readings as a whole and how they could be combined to read any novel. *Feel free to add any images that might help you understand these essays or bridging them*

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Haec Vir: or The Womanish Man is a 17th century pamphlet on a conversation between a women dressed like a man and a man dressed like a woman. They argue their reasons for dressing like the other and the "man-woman" defends women's rights but eventually succumbs the times patriarchal ideas. I kept thinking about Walton discussing the governess's inability to assume a male position due to the boundaries of the era.

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I've read Beloved a few times and it always reminds me of the way trauma/anxieties can be represented in ghost stories. Zacharias points to the ghosts being crucial for the governess to feel wholeness (fulfill her duty) in the big Other/symbolic.

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Lacan

3 Stages: the Real, Imaginary, Symbolic

Real: birth-6 months, only knows purest needs

Imaginary: mirror stage starts b/w 6-18 months. When baby sees itself in mirror for the first time it assumes a false wholeness/autonomy (we never leave this stage)

Symbolic: "big Other" instead of seeing agency/value in mirror we identify selves through society when we acquire language and understanding of rules/regulations.

jouissance: promised pleasure of wholeness only causing pain

objet petit a: object of desire that can never actually be attained eventually creating anxiety/paranoia

Freud

Oedipus complex: a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex; a crucial stage in the normal developmental process

concerned with unconscious mind, what was put there by the consciousness deemed unacceptable emerging in dreams/language/art

superego/ego

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work creates human meaning/history (nature created through meaningful human labor)

capitalism created a class system forcing meaningless unfulfilled labor, ultimately estranging the laborer from the product, the physical activity of the labor, nature, the species itself, and fellow humans

living to work instead of working to live destroyed agency

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views male/female sexes and gender

gender is a construct

essentialist: women naturally different than men

constructionist: differences are based on nurture not nature

sexuality as a spectrum, not restricted to homosexual or heterosexual

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The Platform was an insane movie, people were imprisoned for any sort of crime and placed in a tower structure where food descended from the top and the people at the bottom got what was left. The hierarchy mimics tower/staircase scenes of hierarchy that Robbins discusses, and the place on the hierarchy can be life/death.