Literature and Psychology

Catalog description

This course examines the many ways in which literature represents psychological phenomena. While the texts used vary between sections, they tend to share a focus on moments in which individual desires conflict with various forms of social regulation. In addition, the course introduces students to key texts in psychoanalytic philosophy (Freud, Jung, Lacan, etc.), and explores how those texts both inform-and were informed by-literary readings. Lecture/discussion. Students will be required to submit a total of 20 pages of formal expository writing, including papers at least five pages long and rewritten in response to instructor’s feedback. 50% of or more the final grade will be based on the grades for expository writing assignments. Offered regularly.