Literature Foundation 2009
Week 10
for next week: psychoanalysis
Please read these three poems and see if you can produce a psychoanalytic reading of each.
After I have delivered the lecture on Tuesday I will post a copy of it here (and here it is).
There are three important chronological spans that are relevant to applying Freud to a text:
1. pre 19th century
2. 19th century (when the kind of neuroses and repressions that Freud wrote about became common)
3. 20th century (when Freud became famous, so that any poet would probably be aware of possible Freudian readings.
1. The Sick Rose (William Blake)
2. Wild Nights
and, if there's time:
3. Daddy
