Writing: Monster

   Lecture  Did You Ever See an Id Walking? 

  Considerations of the MONSTER, its inevitably diverse formulation—not, of course, likely to include that pathetic surrogate My mother-in-lawor My fatheror My analystis a Monster—but the actual creature, such as Cyclops(Euripides), Centaur(Homer), Grendel(Beowulf), Caliban(Shakespeare),Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)the Golem,(S. Ansky),Dracula (Stoker),Fafnir (Wagner), the Mock-Turtle, (Lewis Carroll), The Burrow, Metamorphosis(Kafka),the Superego(Freud), Invisible Man(H.G. Wells).  Particular attention will be paid to the Monstrous Figuration as an eroticsubject, and to the generally ambivalent reaction of establishment culture to the frequently (if variously) enunciated question which is the title of these lectures.