Peter Brooks
Cases, Histories, Case-histories
Spring 2012
Wednesdays 1:30-3:20 (with 4 additional lunch time workshops as noted below)

SYLLABUS

1. Feb. 8 (Cases):
Queen v. Dudley & Stevens
Rusk v. Maryland (Md. App. 1979) and Maryland v. Rusk (Md. 1981)
Palsgraf v. LIRR

2. Feb. 15 (Cases, continued):
Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I), 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education (Brown II), 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
Cooper v. Aaron
Michael H. v. Gerald D.

FACULTY WORKSHOP
Feb. 15 at Noon
Council of the Humanities
Guest: Martin Stone (Cardozo Law School and The New School)

3. Feb. 22 (Cases, continued):
In re Soper's Estate
Mickens v. Taylor (Cert Petitions 1 & 2; S. Ct. decision)
District of Columbia v. Heller

4. Feb. 29 (Cases, historical and fictional):
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and "Silver Blaze"
Carlo Ginzburg, "Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm" (excerpt pp. 96-125, 200-214)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (pp. 9-338)

5. March 7 (Cases, historical and fictional, cont.):
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (finish)
Natalie Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Balzac, Adieu (french, english)

6. March 14 (Cases, historical and fictional, cont.):
Balzac, Une passion dans le desert (french, english), Facino Cane (french, english),
Sarah Maza, "Violette Noziere: The Wounds of Class in 1930s Paris"
Sarah Maza, from Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (Chs. 6, 7 & 9)

FACULTY WORKSHOP
March 14 at Noon
Council of the Humanities
Guest: Sarah Maza (Northwestern University)

7. March 28 (Case-histories):
Philippe Pinel, A Treatise on Insanity (pp. 48-109, 224-228)
Jan Goldstein, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy (pp. 3-17, 83-94, 111-121)
Freud, Case History: "Miss Lucy R." and "Fraulein Elisabeth von R." in Studies on Hysteria, Vol II of
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

FACULTY WORKSHOP
March 28 at Noon
Council of the Humanities
Guest: Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago)

8. Apr. 4 (Case-histories, cont.):
Freud, The "Wolf Man" in Three Case Histories
Janet, from The Mental State of Hystericals

9. Apr. 11 (Cases, 2):
Miranda v. Arizona
Schmerber v. California
Chavez v. Martinez
Missouri v. Seibert

FACULTY WORKSHOP
April 11 at Noon
Council of the Humanities
Guest: Jeannie Suk (Harvard Law School)

10. Apr. 18 (Cases, historical and fictional 2):
Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein
David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (excerpt)

11. Apr. 25 (Case-histories 2):
Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
Lacan, "Intervention on Transference" in In Dora's Case, eds. Bernheimer & Kahane, trans. J. Rose; original french text (without opening remarks)
Oliver Saks, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "A Matter of Identity"

12. May 2
Conclusions
Freud, Constructions in Analysis
Florence v. County of Burlington, Slip Opinion (April 2, 2012)
Safford v. Redding (2009)