Since Freud's ventures into literary aesthetics in the early 1900s, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical criticism has provided plenty of food for thought in the study of literature. Over the years, theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Harold Bloom and Slavoj Zizek have applied different approaches to shed light on the unpredictable workings of the human psyche. On this course, we will study important texts written in this tradition to gauge their contemporary relevance.
Methods of study include some lecturing, but mostly we will proceed in the form of a reading circle and team/pair work. An active role is therefore encouraged. Assessment will be based on class participation and a process writing assignment.

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