CLS2060

Freudian fable

Proposed to be offered next in 2000

Kevin Hart

8 points - 2 hours per week - Clayton - Prohibitions: CRT2060/CRT3060

Objectives After successfully completing this subject students should have a close knowledge of several major Freudian texts and a critical appreciation of the relations between literature and psychoanalysis.

Synopsis This subject seeks to introduce students to the dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis. It has two broad aims: to see how Freudian analysis helps to interpret dreams and by extension to read literary texts, and to understand how Freud's most famous case studies themselves work as literary narratives. A detailed study will be made of Freud's 'Wolf-man' case and the discourses surrounding it.

Assessment Written (6000 words): 100% - Second-year students are required to write two comparative essays.

Prescribed texts

Freud S The interpretation of dreams Penguin
Freud S Case histories 2 Penguin
Gardiner M (ed.) The Wolf-Man by the Wolf-Man Hill and Wang

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