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English 3261F/G
PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE: TORTURED MINDS, TWISTED TEXTS
This course investigates the connections between literary story-telling and psychological storytelling, between stories that authors tell about characters and the stories that we tell about ourselves. Examining key psychoanalytical literary texts, this course considers the extent to which psychoanalytic theory employs literary figures to explain the workings of the unconscious.