Contemporary Literary Theory

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of psychoanalysis as a literary-critical and philosophical tradition of thought. In addition to classic texts by Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Klein, we will read contemporary writers influenced by psychoanalysis (Cheng, Zupancic, Scott). Topics include interpretation of dreams, Freudo-Marxism, the psychology of colonialism and race, and sexual difference.