Course Details
Country:
Turkey
Institution:
Sabanci University
Course Title:
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Course Number:
LIT 440
Course Description:
The course focuses on the critical evaluation of the impact of psychoanalytic discourses on literature and literary studies and vice versa. Basic concepts of psychoanalytic theory and criticism will be covered with reference to the writings of Freud and Lacan, as well as to the later interventions by such theorists as Derrida, Zizek, Deleuze and Guattari. Students will be encouraged to develop their skills in the textual analysis of a range of literary and psychoanalytic works, considering them as distinct ways of talking about desire, fantasy, memory, madness, and the unconscious.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
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