FILM-4135 (3) Art and Psychoanalysis

Explores psychoanalytic theory as it relates to our understanding of literature, film, and other arts. After becoming familiar with some essential Freudian notions (repression, narcissism, ego/libido, dreamwork, etc.), students apply these ideas to works by several artists (e.g., Flaubert, James, Kafka, Hoffmann, and Hitchcock). Prereq., HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.