Engl 214 fall 2010 week 2.1 introduction to psychoanalysis

ENGL 214 Fall 2010WEEK 1Introduction to Freud/Psychoanalysis

ENGL 214, Fall 2010Psychology Psychiatry Psychoanalysis

ENGL 211, Summer 2010psyche: originates from Greek myth, a word that originally referred to the ‘soul’ ; in modern context refers to the mental life in contrast to the body

ENGL 214, Fall 2010Sigmund Freud biography:- born 6 May 1856 in Freiberg - son of Jewish wool merchant - moved to Vienna at age of 4 - left in 1938, threats by Nazis - died in England 23 Sept. 1939

ENGL 211, Summer 2010Freud began with clinical approach to curing neurosis (Studies in Hysteria, 1896), through hypnosis, free association and other means

ENGL 214, Fall 2010The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) Freud considered it to be his most important work. - Study of dreams moved him from clinical analysis of the ‘abnormal’ to the ‘normal’ - Most ‘radical’ claim: we are all neurotics

ENGL 214, Fall 2010 approached not just dream interpretation but also interpretation of the language of everyday life: day dreams, slips of the tongue (parapraxes), interruption of personal wishes/desires by social constraints

ENGL 214, Fall 2010by the end of his life had expanded psychoanalysis to examine art, literature, war, death and the origins of culture, society and relgion

ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Literary Interpretation: Lessons of Psychoanalysis

ENGL 211, Summer 2010Interpretation: - stories and images are not always what they appear to be on the surface (role of symbolism) - not just deeper meaning, but often the presence of two conflicting meanings - slips/mispoken words/chance + non-intended meanings or associations should not be dismissed by readers, but become central - not just ‘search for meaning’ but looking at blockage of communication and meaning: unconscious takes the form of a ‘resistance’ to speaking/remembering/retelling

ENGL 214, Fall 2010stories and images are not always what they appear to be on the surface (role of symbolism, condensation + displacement)

ENGL 214, Fall 2010not just searching for deeper meaning, but often the presence of two conflicting meanings

ENGL 214, Fall 2010slips/mispokenwords/chance + non-intended meanings or associations should not be dismissed by readers, but become central to the literary + readerly enterprise

ENGL 214, Fall 2010reading is not just ‘search for meaning’ but looking at the absence of meaning (gaps and silences), the blockage of communication: often the unconscious takes the form of a ‘resistance’ to speaking, remembering or retelling

ENGL 214, Fall 20101. The Unconsicous

P. Thurschwell. Sigmund Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 4. Print.Unconscious: storehouse of instinctual desires and needs- Preserves childhood wishes and memories (even those erased from consciousness)

P. Thurschwell. Sigmund Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 4. Print.Unconscious: trash can that never gets taken out“in mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish – … everything is somehow preserved and … in suitable circumstances … it can once more be brought to light” - – Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

ENGL 214, Fall 20101I. The Edo/Id/Superego

ENGL 214, Fall 2010III. Oedipus Complex

ENGL 211, Summer 2010Freud: the “cure” is self-reflection, self-knowledge

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 cure and catharsis: cleansing, purging, purfication

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Poe invents the detective Story in - no readership - 1st audience is for Sherlock Holmes stories in

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Agatha Christie: best-selling author of all time (tied with Shakespeare)

ENGL 211, Summer 2010- 1st recorded use of the expression “detective story” appears in 1878

ENGL 211, Summer 2010- used by the American novelist Anna Katharine Greene (1846-1935) in her book, The Leavenworth Case (1878) - First work of detective fiction written by a woman

scientific methodPoes interest in photography science and criminal investigation

Brave New World, published 1932

II. Defining “Detective Fiction”

ENGL 211, Summer 2010III. The Economics of the Short Story

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 detective fiction

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 why short story?

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 towards the end of the 19th century the novel had come to be seen as the artistically respectable form

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 serial publication (magazines)

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 UK: penny dreadful U.S: dime novel

ENGL 211, Summer 2010In UK, detective fiction and short fiction has longer history of serialization in magazinesFree-standing ‘short story’ (not serials) grows out of North American literary culture

Julian Symons, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. p. 86.- short story – most popular form for crime fiction for 30 years - its popularity begins to decline after WWI

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Julian Symons: 1) liberation of

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 short story’s popularity wanes again after WWI

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