Astrid Lac

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 21st-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.

Conférences

Vendredi 12 janvier | 12h30-14h30

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

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Intelligences de la Corée » animé par Isabelle Sancho et Alain Delissen

Salle 3.09 • Centre de colloques, Place du Front populaire - 93300 Aubervilliers

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Vendredi 26 janvier | 12h30-14h30

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

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Intelligences de la Corée » animé par Isabelle Sancho et Alain Delissen

Salle 3.09 • Centre de colloques, Place du Front populaire - 93300 Aubervilliers

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Mardi 6 février | 14h-16h

“Chinatown” as Fantasy in “K-Cinema”

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Anthropologie du religieux en Corée » animé par Florence Galmiche

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

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