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Academic Year 2001/2002

Freud's Vienna
GERM 273 FA
Crosslistings:
GELT 273
Clusters:

Jewish and Israel Studies

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 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002

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