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| 0680-3116-01 | Psychoanalysis Gender & Literature: Theories & Interpretation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
In the opening part of the course we will examine Sigmund Freud’s revolutionary theory of sexuality and the unconscious, and discuss its overt and covert concepts of gender. Later on, we will acquaint ourselves with post-Freudian theories and concepts of sexuality and gender such as Karen Horney’s subversive theory of “penis envy”, Melanie Klein’s concept of “pre-oedipal” developmental phase, and Jessica Benjamin’s reconstruction of the oedipal complex. We will also address the intellectual roots common to psychoanalysis and feminism, and present the loci of disagreement and friction between the two fields of discourse that developed out of these theories. In the second part of the course we will become familiar with various methods of interpretation based on the intersection between psychoanalytic theory and feminist discourse, as developed by scholars such as Shoshana Felman, Jacqueline Rose, Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous.