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Freud's Vienna
GERM273 SP

Crosslistings: GELT273

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.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA GERM    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000


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