Browse Hierarchy ESH370: Reading Psychoanalysis Reading Literature

This module will introduce students to psychoanalytic ideas and to psychoanalytically informed ways of reading and interpreting texts. Students should not worry if they have read no psychoanalysis before. We will spend the first part of the module on Freud before moving on to other psychoanalytic thinkers (e.g. CJ Jung, Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein and Frantz Fanon) and engaging with concepts that are central to psychoanalysis. As we continue to build this foundational knowledge, we will put the psychoanalytic texts, and ideas we draw from them, into dialogue with readings of literary works.