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SUMMARY:The narcissist and the coquette: contesting figures of sexual soci
 ability - Julie Walsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Leon Rocha
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I sketch-out Sigmund Freud's theory of narcissism
  and its reception in psychoanalysis and cultural discourse more broadly. 
 Of principal concern will be the complaint that psychoanalytic theories of
 \nnarcissism inevitably malign 'the feminine'. Beyond an engagement with s
 ome of the late-twentieth century feminist literature on this topic\, I re
 -examine Freud's feminine narcissist in some detail to ask whether she may
  be a more 'attractive' figure than her negative press suggests. The coque
 tte\, a contemporaneous historical representation of woman found in the so
 ciological work of Georg Simmel\, will help me to make the case for re-sit
 uating the narcissist in a vital relation to the dynamics of\nsociability.
  Ultimately\, by comparing the narcissist and the coquette\, I illustrate 
 that in addition to encompassing the seductions of self-love\, narcissism 
 enacts a call to the other which is a profoundly social gesture.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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