Subject area: Twentieth Century and Inter-disciplinary
Course length: one semester
This course will introduce you to psychoanalytic ideas and to psychoanalytically informed ways of reading and interpreting texts. Don't worry if you have read no psychoanalysis before. We will spend a large part of the first weeks on Freud. Other psychoanalytic thinkers to be read might include: C J Jung, Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein and Frantz Fanon. We will then proceed to a series of readings of literary works which either were in dialogue historically, or seem to offer the potential for dialogue, with psychoanalysis.
Indicative reading: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks; Karl Jung, ‘Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious’.