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 106-072 Reading the Subject: Freud/Lacan/Fiction

Note

Formerly available as 106-403. Students who have completed 106-403 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

David Bennett

Prerequisites

Usually admission to Fourth Year Honours, see Honours entry.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

The subject provides an introduction to the basic tenets of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and some of the challenges and criticisms they have attracted. It examines the influences of psychoanalysis on representations of subjectivity and identity in 20th century literature and film; the uses of psychoanalytic theory for critical interpretation of fictive texts, and the uses of fiction for critical interpretation of psychoanalysis.

Assessment

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

  • J M Coetzee, Foe. Penguin.
  • M Foucault, The History of Sexuality (Vol. 1). Random House.
  • P Gay (ed), The Freud Reader. Vintage.
  • R Jones, Julia Paradise.
  • E A Poe, The Purloined Letter. Creative Ed.
  • D M Thomas, The White Hotel.
  • V Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. Penguin.
  • Film: Vertigo.
  • Film: Terminator 2.
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