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Academic Year 2001/2002
Freud's Vienna
GERM 273 SP
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 NOVEL, 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
Four short papers (3-5 pp.), final examination.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Additional Requirements and/or Comments not known
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GERM
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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