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106-403 Writing the Subject: Psychoanalysis and Other Stories

Year 4 English.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: David Bennett.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have acquired familiarity with the basic tenets of Freudian theories of subject-formation and some of the ways in which they have been challenged and revised in more recent psychoanalytic writing;
• have examined the influence of such theories on narrative representations of character, subjectivity and gender-identity in a range of literary texts and films;
• have examined ways in which psychoanalytic perspectives have influenced literary and film criticism in the twentieth century.

Content:

This subject studies literary and filmic representations of the formation and fragmentation of the 'self', employing the perspectives of psychoanalytic theory and criticism.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• (Please note that any edition of the following texts is acceptable
• ) Beckett S Malone Dies. Cardinal M The Words to Say It. Coetzee J M Foe. Elliott M Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction. Foucault M The History of Sexuality Vol 1
• Freud S Two Short Accounts of Psychoanalysis. Freud S Case Histories1: Dora and Little Hans. Jones R Julia Paradise. Lawrence D H Three Novellas. Poe E A The Purloined Letter. Thomas D M The White Hotel. White P The Aunt's Story. Woolf V Orlando. Films: Vertigo, The Terminator 2, Paris is Burning. Course reader available from the department

Recommended texts:

• Bernheimer C and Kahane C eds In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism Virago
• Screen The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality Routledge
• Wright E Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice Methuen
• Zizek S Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture October/MIT Press

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