EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned:<\/strong> Sigmund Freud. From The Interpretation of Dreams,<\/em> Chapters V-VI (814-24 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 814-17, how (and for what psychoanalytic purpose) does Freud account for the perpetual and seemingly universal appeal of Sophocles\u2019 tragedy Oedipus the King<\/em>? What view of the play does he oppose, and why? If you are presenting on this question, do you find Freud\u2019s reading of the play sufficient and compelling? Why or why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 817-18, Freud addresses Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy Hamlet<\/em> as another instance of the Oedipus Complex. How is Prince Hamlet\u2019s problem different from Oedipus\u2019 dilemma? How does Freud explain the variation, and what does he infer to be the wider cultural or historical significance of that difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 818, how does Freud draw upon Shakespeare\u2019s biography and career as a dramatist to construct an expressive theory for the play Hamlet?<\/em> What limitations does Freud place upon this kind of biography-based expressive criticism of a work of art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 818-19, how does Freud define the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, respectively? Why have previous explicators of dreams failed so badly in their attempts, in Freud\u2019s view — what didn\u2019t they understand about the \u201cdream-content\u201d as Freud conceptualizes that content?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. On 820-22, how does Freud explain dream displacement and dream condensation? How do these two mechanisms, taken together, constitute the form of dreams? Why are they essential to establishing a relationship between the dream-content and dream-thoughts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. On 822-24, what insights does Freud offer regarding the manner in which the dream-work represents logical connections, causal relations, and negations or \u201ccontraries and contradictories\u201d that may have been a factor in the dreamer\u2019s original \u201cdream-thoughts\u201d? What is the dream interpreter\u2019s role with regard to understanding such representations when they appear in the manifest content of a given dream?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. General question: It\u2019s obvious why Freud\u2019s theory of the Unconscious instills anxiety in many people about the autonomy of individual consciousness. How do you personally deal with or process this unsettling theory? This question may be used for the journal set, but it isn\u2019t intended as a presentation question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HENRY L. GATES JR. QUESTIONS FOR E492 MODERN CRITICAL THEORYCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2015 Assigned: Sigmund Freud. From The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapters V-VI (814-24 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8). From The Interpretation of Dreams From \u201cChapter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[47],"class_list":["post-944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From The Interpretation of Dreams<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
From \u201cChapter V. The Material and Sources of Dreams\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
From \u201cChapter VI. The Dream-Work\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n