A) Using at least ONE specific example from (exclusively) Slavoj Žižek’s How to Read Lacan, explain Lacan’s concept of the “big Other” as precisely and explicitly as possible.
B) Why, according to (exclusively) Slavoj Žižek’s How to Read Lacan, should there be a “return to Freud,” and what does such a return entail for Lacan? Be as precise and specific as possible.
2. [3 points] Please choose ONE of the following theorists discussed in Nealon’s and Giroux’s twelfth chapter (“Nature”): Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, or Thomas Malthus. THEN, using at least ONE specific example from N&G’s twelfth chapter (exclusively), clearly and precisely discuss how this individual’s theories of “nature” have influenced or might help explain aspects of modern society.
3. [3 points] As Nealon and Giroux argue in their twelfth chapter, “with rare [exceptions], animals are defined in terms of their perceived intellectual impoverishment, incompetence, and imbecility; they are ‘without consciousness.’” Using at least ONE specific example from their twelfth chapter (exclusively), please explain why the above “anthropocentric assumptions” limit our engagement with the moral and ethical “question of the animal.”
