3. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 psyche: originates from Greek myth, a word that originally referred to the ‘soul’ ; in modern context refers to the mental life in contrast to the body
4. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Sigmund Freud biography: - born 6 May 1856 in Freiberg - son of Jewish wool merchant - moved to Vienna at age of 4 - left in 1938, threats by Nazis - died in England 23 Sept. 1939
5. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Freud began with clinical approach to curing neurosis (Studies in Hysteria, 1896), through hypnosis, free association and other means
6. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) Freud considered it to be his most important work. - Study of dreams moved him from clinical analysis of the ‘abnormal’ to the ‘normal’ - Most ‘radical’ claim: we are all neurotics
7. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 approached not just dream interpretation but also interpretation of the language of everyday life: day dreams, slips of the tongue (parapraxes), interruption of personal wishes/desires by social constraints
8. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 by the end of his life had expanded psychoanalysis to examine art, literature, war, death and the origins of culture, society and relgion
9. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Literary Interpretation: Lessons of Psychoanalysis
10. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Interpretation: - stories and images are not always what they appear to be on the surface (role of symbolism) - not just deeper meaning, but often the presence of two conflicting meanings - slips/mispoken words/chance + non-intended meanings or associations should not be dismissed by readers, but become central - not just ‘search for meaning’ but looking at blockage of communication and meaning: unconscious takes the form of a ‘resistance’ to speaking/remembering/retelling
11. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 stories and images are not always what they appear to be on the surface (role of symbolism, condensation + displacement)
12. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 not just searching for deeper meaning, but often the presence of two conflicting meanings
13. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 slips/mispokenwords/chance + non-intended meanings or associations should not be dismissed by readers, but become central to the literary + readerly enterprise
14. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 reading is not just ‘search for meaning’ but looking at the absence of meaning (gaps and silences), the blockage of communication: often the unconscious takes the form of a ‘resistance’ to speaking, remembering or retelling
16. P. Thurschwell. Sigmund Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 4. Print. Unconscious: storehouse of instinctual desires and needs - Preserves childhood wishes and memories (even those erased from consciousness)
17. P. Thurschwell. Sigmund Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 4. Print. Unconscious: trash can that never gets taken out “in mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish – … everything is somehow preserved and … in suitable circumstances … it can once more be brought to light” - – Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
22. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Poe invents the detective Story in - no readership - 1st audience is for Sherlock Holmes stories in
23. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Agatha Christie: best-selling author of all time (tied with Shakespeare)
24. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 - 1st recorded use of the expression “detective story” appears in 1878
25. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 - used by the American novelist Anna Katharine Greene (1846-1935) in her book, The Leavenworth Case (1878) - First work of detective fiction written by a woman
26. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 - 1st recorded use of the expression “detective story” appears in 1878
27. scientific method Poes interest in photography science and criminal investigation
36. ENGL 211, Summer 2010 In UK, detective fiction and short fiction has longer history of serialization in magazines Free-standing ‘short story’ (not serials) grows out of North American literary culture
37. Julian Symons, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. p. 86. - short story – most popular form for crime fiction for 30 years - its popularity begins to decline after WWI