Sex and Text in Freud's Vienna
GRST 273
Fall 2011
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01
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| Crosslisting:
GELT 273 |
The focus in this course will be initially on the foundational texts of psychoanalysis: STUDIES ON HYSTERIA, THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, and "A Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora)." We will then investigate the response and resistance, both creative and polemical, to Freud and psychoanalytic theory in the literature and art of the period. We will read major works by Freud's "double," the novelist and playwright Arthur Schnitzler, and by the satirist Karl Kraus, the author of the famous aphorism "Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it purports to be the therapy." The implicit response to Freud's theory of dreams and of the unconscious in the portraits and other paintings of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele will also be given close consideration. In general, the course will explore how psychoanalysis influenced and participated in the sexual discourses of the period. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GRST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (GRST-MN)(GRST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Altenberg, ASHANTEE
Breuer and Freud, STUDIES ON HYSTERIA
Freud, DORA, INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, ELECTRA
Oskar Kokoschka, THE DREAMING BOYS; MURDERER, HOPE OF WOMEN
Karl Kraus, HALF-TRUTHS AND ONE-AND-A-HALF TRUTHS; aphorisms; IN THESE GREAT TIMES
Arthur Schnitzler, LA RONDE; LIEUTENANT GUSTL; FRAEULEIN ELSE
Painting and graphic art by Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele
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Examinations and Assignments:
One short essay, one mid-term examination, one research paper. |
| Instructor(s): Lensing,Leo A. Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: FISK412; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 4 | FR: 4 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 6 | 1st Ranked: 3 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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