WGSS 388
Psychoanalysis,Gender&Sexuality
Spring 2013
Division II
Cross-listed
COMP 342 / ENGL 387
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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#: 3627
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 3627
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 II
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
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
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WGSS 388 - 01 (S) SEM Psychonalysis,Gender&Sexuality
WGSS 388 - 01 (S) SEM Psychonalysis,Gender&SexualityDivision IITF 2:35 pm - 3:50 pm
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