First-Year Seminar: Déjà vu. Medicine and Narration across Time and Space.

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This seminar explores how French-speaking writers and artists have engaged with medical culture. Hallucinations, depression, hysteria, paranoia, anxiety, neurosis, body dysmorphic disorder, obsession, and pain are some symptoms that will be reflected in the narratives of this course. We will study a group of writers and artists across time and space who explore, adapt, and converse with contemporaneous medical learning in their creative works. Taught in English; no knowledge of French required. First Year Seminar.