ENGL 130
Dream Work Fall 2013
Division I Writing Skills
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Sigmund Freud, whose 1900 publication of The Interpretation of Dreams profoundly influenced the 20th century’s understanding of the unconscious, described dream as a “rebus” or “pictographic script,” the parts of which had to be read “according to their symbolic relation”; “[a]t bottom,” he insisted, “dreams are nothing other than a particular form of thinking.” Like all art, dreams both require and resist interpretation. This class will ask whether dreams are themselves representable, and what different media uncover and conceal about the dream’s form of thinking. We will consider a range of texts, including ancient oneirocritica, medieval dream visions, and psychoanalytic case studies, before moving on to modern and contemporary attempts to capture the “underside of consciousness” that dream represents. Our primary texts will include fiction (Kafka, Borges, Marilynne Robinson, Yoko Tawada), poetry (Whitman, Michael Palmer, Anne Carson, Saskia Hamilton), and film (Hitchcock, Lynch, Linklater).
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1633
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: four short papers for this course, totaling around 20 pages, in addition to frequent reading responses
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: first-year students who have not taken or placed out of a 100-level English course
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills

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