Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

168. Psychoanalysis and Science Fiction

8:30–9:45 a.m., Golden Gate 8, Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Psychological Approaches to Literature

Presiding: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York

1. “Reading Jurassic Park as the Revolt against the Feminine in the Age of High-Tech Globalization,” Robert Samuels, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

2. “The Mismeasure of Desire: Freudian Negroes, Ravishing Simians, and Envy at the Limits of Civilization in Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Zakiyyah Jackson, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Androids, Cyborgs, Good-Enough Mothers, and Good-Enough Analysts in Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Esther Rashkin, Univ. of Utah

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