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Academic Year 2000/2001
Freud's Vienna
GERM 273 FA
This course is a study of the intellectual ferment and social unrest that characterized Vienna during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It will focus on the rise of Freudian psychoanalysis and its influence
on literature and art, as well as
on critical and satirical responses to Freud.
MAJOR READINGS
Breuer and Freud, STUDIES ON HYSTERIA
Freud, DORA, INTERPRETATIONS OF DREAMS
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, ELECTRA
Oskar Kokoschka, MURDERER, HOPE OF WOMEN
Karl Kraus, HALF-TRUTHS AND ONE-AND-A-HALF
TRUTHS, Aphorisms, IN THESE GREAT
TIMES
Adolf Loos, "Ornament and Crime" and other essays
Arthur Schnitzler, "Lieutenant Gustl," LA RONDE, DREAM STORY, FRAEULEIN ELSE
Segel, ed., THE VIENNA COFFEEHOUSE WITS
Schorske, FIN-DE-SIECLE
VIENNA
Paintings and other
images by Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschke Vergo, ART IN VIENNA.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One short essay, one class report, one research paper.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GERM
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Lensing,Leo A.
- Times: ..T.T.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK210
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 20)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 5 SO: 5 FR: 5
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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