The course focuses on the critical evaluation of
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.
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