I You focuses on representations of self and other in the philosophical fragments and prose of
Novalis Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit-Schlegel. Dr. Strand traces connections between
their writings on otherness and Jacques Lacan's poststructuralist psychoanalytic theories.
Early Romantic notions of women and the Orient are analyzed. Luce Irigaray's feminist critiques
of Western thought inform the discussions on early Romantic writings on gender. The connections
between philosophy and literature are emphasized.
