HMS-330A Topics in Literary/Cultural Theory: Freud and Lacan

3 Credits

This course covers works by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who reread Freud through the lens of developing twentieth-century philosophy and structural linguistics. Also examined will be the works of other thinkers, writers, artists and filmmakers that exemplify and/or engage psychoanalytical ideas.