LITS3303 2008 - 2009

MODULE TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS

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WEEK SIX: FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
(Week of October 6)
 

• Sigmund Freud
  • The Interpretation of Dreams [1900] (Vols. 4 and 5 of his Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works):
    • Ch. 5: "The Material and Sources of Dreams" (pp. 919-923 in Leitch)
    • Ch. 6: "The Dream-Work" (pp. 923-929 in Leitch)
  • Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis [sometimes called The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis][1910] (Vol. 11 of his Complete Psychological Works)

• 06A Freud The Interpretation of Dreams
• 06B Freud Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis

• Sigmund Freud
  • "The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex" [1924] (pp. 173-82 in Vol. 19 of his Complete Psychological Works)
  • "Fetishism" [1927] (pp. 952-956 in Leitch)
  • "The Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence" [1939] (pp. 271-278 in Vol. 23 of his Complete Psychological Works)

• 06C Freud "The Dissolution of the Oedipal Complex"
• 06D Freud "Fetishism"
• 06E Freud "On the Splitting of the Ego in the Defensive Process"

• Jones, Ernest.  The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.  3 Vols.  New York: Basic, 1953-1957.  One-Volume, Abridged Version, 1961.

• Psychoanalysis:
  • Freud

WEEK SEVEN: PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERARY THEORY
(Week of October 13)
 

• Sigmund Freud "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" [1908] (pp. 711-716 in Adams)
• Lionel Trilling "Freud and Literature" [1940] (pp. 34-57 in his The Liberal Imagination)

• 07A Freud "Creative Writers and Daydreaming"
• 07B Trilling "Freud and Literature"

• Harold Bloom The Anxiety of Influence [1973]: "Introduction: a Meditation Upon Priority, and a Synopsis" (pp. 1797-1804 in Leitch)

• 07C Bloom The Anxiety of Influence

• Elizabeth Wright "Modern Psychoanalytic Criticism" (pp. 113-133 in Modern Literary Theory, ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey)

• Bloom
• Brooks
• Jung
• Trilling

WEEK EIGHT: JUNGIAN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY / ARCHETYPAL LITERARY THEORY
(Week of October 20)
 

• Carl Jung
  • Selections (in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman, et al.) [FOLDER] entitled:
    • "The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes" (pp. 641-644 )
    • "The Psychological Function of Archetypes" (pp. 648-653)
    • "The Principal Archetypes" (pp. 653-659)
  • "Approaching the Unconscious" [1964] (pp. 18-103 in Man and his Symbols; rpt. as "Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams" in Vol. 18 of Collected Works)

• 08A Jung "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"
• 08B Jung "Approaching the Unconscious"

• Carl Jung "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry" [1923] (pp. 783-791 in Adams; pp. 987-1001 in Leitch)

• 08C Jung "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry"

• Fordham, Frieda.  An Introduction to Jung's Psychology.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953.
• Knapp, Bettina.  A Jungian Approach to Literature.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

• Analytical Psychology:
  • Jung

WEEK  NINE: PSYCHOANALYTIC POST-COLONIAL THEORY
(Week of October 27)
 

• Frantz Fanon Black Skin White Masks [1952]:
  • Introduction
  • Ch. 6 "The Negro and Psychopathology"

• 09A Fanon "The Negro and Psychopathology"

• René Ménil "The Situation of Poetry in the Caribbean" (pp. 127-133 in Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean, ed. Michael Richardson)
• Wilson Harris "History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas" [1970] (pp. 152-166 in his The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination: Selected Essays; see excerpt entitled "The Limbo Gateway," pp. 378-82 in Ashcroft, et al.)

• 09B Menil "the Situation of Poetry in the Caribbean"
• 09C Harris "History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas"

• Britton, Celia.  Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought.  Oxford: Legenda European Humanities Research Centre, Research Monographs in French Studies 12, 2002.

• Post-colonial Theory: Psychoanalytic Postcolonial Theory:
  • Fanon
  • Harris
  • Ménil

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