Freudian fable
Proposed to be offered next in 1998
Kevin Hart
8 points
* 2 hours per week
* Clayton
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 second year Written (6000 words): 100%
* Second-year
students are required to write two comparative essays.
Assessment third year Written (6000 words): 100%
* Third-year
students write one comparative and one research essay.
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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