Department of Literature (Literary Theory), University of California, San Diego, Winter 2009
Course Description:
This course is an in-depth exploration of the works, culture, history and theories of Sigmund Freud. What is “psychoanalysis”? We will “go back” to Freud, reading him as literature and on literature. Topics will include: dreams, jokes, sex, god, history, memory and forgetting, telephones and telepathy, obsessive actions and religious practices, totems and taboos, collective hysterias and neuroses, and Moses. And more.