Course Info: CSI-0191
| Course | CSI-0191 Freud, In Reverse |
| Long Title | Freud, In Reverse |
| Term | 2017S |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 103 on T,TH from 9:00-10:20 |
| Faculty | Annie Rogers |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 6 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | The course will read Freud in reverse, underscoring his most radical and developed ideas late in his life. Freud explored trauma in new forms in his late work on the repetition-compulsion and the death drive, the theory of the uncanny, and his dream analysis revision. We will examine his late work on constructions in analysis and move back in time to his writing about screen memories and repeating as a form of memory, as well as his earlier work on dreams, resistance, sexuality and the Oedipus complex. We will read the literature that stages Freud's concerns and questions: Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and a novella by Hoffmann, The Sandman. Students are expected to write three essays for this class, and to consult on their final papers. No prior experience reading psychoanalysis is required. |