Astrid Lac, Professeure invitée de l’EHESS 2023-2024

Professeure invitée de l’EHESS 2023-2024

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Yonsei University, Underwood International College, January 11^th – February 8^th 2024

Astrid Lac is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Underwood International College of Yonsei University, South Korea. She has written on Yukio Mishima, Georges Bataille, and Haruki Murakami among other figures in modern and contemporary literature, and psychoanalytic concepts such as melancholia and trauma in the context of recent critical discourse. Dr. Lac is presently completing a monograph titled “Cinema After Oedipus,” which defines chief features of post-Oedipal civilization in reference to psychoanalytic thinkers—from Freud to Lacan to contemporary analysts and theorists—and the works of 21^st-century cinema. The study pursues the logic and forms of enjoyment (Freud’s “pleasure” and Lacan’s “jouissance”) today, and as such considers sexual relationship as it has become newly “impossible” in the aftermath of the demise of the Oedipal family. Dr. Lac’s lectures at EHESS will consider this anthropological juncture in selected East Asian contexts.   

12 janvier 2024, Séminaire “Intelligences de la Corée », 12h30-14h30

• Introduction to the series theme: The Vicissitudes of Desire in East Asia Today; Lecture 1: Haruki Murakami’s “Body” of Work

 EHESS, Centre de colloques, Cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers ; Salle 3.09

26 janvier 2024, Séminaire “Intelligences de la Corée », 12h30-14h30

• Men without Women in Japan and South Korea: Haruki Murakami’s “Barn Burning” (1983) vs. Chang-dong Lee’s Burning (2018)

 EHESS, Centre de colloques, Cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers ; Salle 3.09

6 février 2024, Séminaire « Anthropologie du religieux en Corée », 14h-16h

• Chinatown” as Fantasy in “K-Cinema”

Université Paris Cité • Salle 475C • Bâtiment des Grands Moulins, 5 rue Thomas Mann – 75013 Paris