COMP 342
Psychoanalysis,Gender&Sexuality Spring 2013
Division I
Cross-listed WGSS 388 / ENGL 387
This is not the current course catalog

Class Details

Psychoanalytic thought offers one of the most subtle and startling accounts we have of the nature of gender and sexuality, one that suggests how inextricably sexuality is bound to language, to the limits of culture, and to the problem of identity as such. We’ll be interested in these issues in their own right; we’ll be equally interested in the surprising ways psychoanalytic thought opens up literary, cinematic and visual works–psychoanalysis is, in the end, a form of reading. The course will weave together theoretical texts and fictions from As You Like It to Some Like it Hot. We’ll explore Antigone, “chick flicks” and “buddy” films, courtly love lyrics and novels (Balzac, Woolf, Duras) in the light of thinkers such as Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacqueline Rose, Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman.
The Class: Format: discussion/seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 3626
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: lively participation, 20 pages of writing in the form of two short and one longer paper
Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, or a score of 5 on the Advanced Placement examination in English Literature or a 6 or 7 on the International Baccalaureate
Enrollment Preferences: preference given to English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies majors
Distributions: Division I
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL or COMP; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under WGSS
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 388 Division II COMP 342 Division I ENGL 387 Division I
Attributes: ENGL Criticism Courses

Class Grid

Course Catalog Archive Search

TERM/YEAR
TEACHING MODE
SUBJECT
DIVISION



DISTRIBUTION



ENROLLMENT LIMIT
COURSE TYPE
Start Time
End Time
Day(s)