MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CRT2060

Freudian fable

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

Kevin Hart

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%

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