GERST 6535

Literature and Psychoanalysis: Kindred Spirits

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course will examine the similarities and differences between literary and psychoanalytic approaches to works of fiction or criticism. Do these fields borrow techniques and methodologies from each other? Are they in competition? Do they suggest different practices of reading and writing? Do they both pursue therapeutic goals? Where and how do literature and psychoanalysis position the subject, the self, the individual? Does literature analyze? Authors will include: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Moritz, Goethe, Buechner, Kleist, Poe, Kafka, Goethe, Jung, Lipps, Freud, Lacan, Butler, Benjamin, Derrida, Felman, et al.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Comments Readings and discussions in English.

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