[Response] “I simply do not accept a word of what you’re saying”: The Cost of Challenging Master Narratives
Ananya Aravindan’s post on the narrative project of law and literature discusses her encountering the use of patriarchal master narratives…
Using Trauma to Reclaim the Voice of the Victims
Shoshana Felman, in the Introduction to her book, The Juridical Unconscious, discusses how the surfacing of trauma in the courtroom…
Law Is A Woman (Alexa, play Ariana Grande)
Harold’s post (titled “Identity”) opens with the provocative “Who is Law”, reflects on Law’s repressed trauma and hostility, and suggests…
Identity
Who is Law? Using the terminology of the “unconscious”, our three assigned articles in Week 1 collectively question Law’s facade….
The prevalence of the unconscious
A couple of weeks on from our very first lesson, I still find myself pondering upon the idea of…
Freud, Felman, and vessels for the unconscious
Freud’s concept of the unconscious posits that the process of repression does not annihilate the idea which represents an instinct,…