MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies

Psychoanalysis and Literature Reading List
Spring Term 2008
Coordinators: Dr Liz Allison & Ms. Ruth McCall

* indicates required reading, but please try to read as much as you can of the other items too - especially the literary texts.

Seminar 1
Friday 1st February 12.30-2.00pm

THE LITERARY OBJECT AS OBJECT OF PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION

ESSENTIAL READING :

*Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Familiarity with this text will be assumed, but it would be useful to refresh your memory of the chapter on the dream-work and reread the sections on Hamlet and Oedipus. Book in Office

*Ernest Jones, Hamlet and Oedipus, Chap. 1-5 (Gollancz, 1949). Folder

*Stephen Greenblatt, 'Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture', in Patricia Parker and David Quint eds, Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986). Folder

SUPPLEMENTARY READING :

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)

T. S. Eliot, 'Hamlet' (1919), in Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot (Faber, 1975), pp. 45-50 Folder

Seminar 2

Friday 8th February 12.30 - 2.00

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE READER

ESSENTIAL READING :

*Shoshana Felman, 'Turning the Screw of Interpretation' (1977), in Writing and Madness (Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 141-250. Folder

SUPPLEMENTARY READING :  

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)  

Seminar 3

Friday 22nd February 12.30 - 2.00pm

THE PREHISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC READING STRATEGIES: THE EXAMPLE OF ROMANTICISM

ESSENTIAL READING :

*William Wordsworth, 1799 Prelude and 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' (1807) Folder

*Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) and Biographia Literaria chapter 13 Folder

*Ron Britton, Belief and Imagination chapters 6, 9, 11 (Routledge, 1998) Folder

*Terry Eagleton, 'Introduction' and 'The Rise of English' in Literary Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1982; second edition 1996) Folder

SUPPLEMENTARY READING :

Eagleton, 'Free Particulars' in The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Blackwell, 1990) Folder

Marilyn Butler, 'Introduction' in Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (Opus, 1981) Folder

Seminar 4

Friday 29th February 12.30 - 2.00pm

LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE

ESSENTIAL READING :  

*Jacques Lacan, 'Seminar on the Purloined Letter', in Ecrits (1966), translated in The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987) Folder

*Jacques Derrida, 'The Purveyor of Truth' [Le facteur de la verite], in The Post Card (1980), trans. Alan Bass (University of Chicago Press, 1987) Folder

SUPPLEMENTARY READING :

Slavoj Zizek, 'Which Subject of the Real?' in The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso, 1989) Folder

Edgar Allen Poe, 'The Purloined Letter' (1845) Folder
 

Seminar 5

Friday 14th March 12.30 - 2.00pm

THE UNCANNY

ESSENTIAL READING :

*E. T. A. Hoffmann, 'The Sandman' (1817) Folder

*Sigmund Freud, 'The 'Uncanny'' (1919), S. E. 17, or Penguin Freud vol. 14, Art and Literature Folder

*Neil Hertz, 'Freud and the Sandman', in The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime (Columbia University Press, 1985) Folder

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