ENGL2420: Critical Theory:
Lacan, Derrida and since
Resources:
Freud

SE + roman numeral = volume in Standard Edition of the Complete Psychoanalytical Works of Sigmund Freud. Trans. and gen. ed. James Strachey. Hogarth Press: London, 1953-1974. BF173.F6212 PFL + arabic numeral = volume in the Penguin Freud Library, general editors Angela Richards and Albert Dickson, translations by James Strachey, Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1973-. Various call numbers: see below.

(This list includes only work of direct relevance to the course.)

Volume 15 of PFL contains a number of very approachable introductory pieces and overviews, such as Freud's last work, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, "The Question of Lay Analysis" and An Autobiographical Study.

• Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. SE XVIII, PFL 11. [1920]
  Includes the formulation of the concept of repetition compulsion.
  
  
• ---. "Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria". SE VII, PFL 8. [1905]
  The "Dora" case is one of the first demonstrations of dream analysis in treatment. A good deal of feminist critique has found this analysis particularly fascinating as an example of countertransference from the male analyst onto the female analysand: Freud narrates and interprets a tale while quite oblivious to his own role in the drama.
  
  
• ---. The Interpretation of Dreams. SE IV-V, PFL 4 BF1078.F72 [1900]
  The initiating work of psychoanalysis. Its size may look daunting (the Penguin edition is about 800 pages long), but it's a very approachable and fascinating book. The first chapter, on previous scientific literature on dreams, can be skipped or returned to later; the rest of the book pieces together step by step not only Freud's method of dream interpretation, but from that a radically new conception of the unconscious.
  
  
• ---. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. SE XV-XVI, PFL 1 BF173.F72 [1915-17]
  Originally given as lectures for a lay audience: lucid, and still one of the best introductions to Freud.
  
  
• ---. New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. SE XXII, PFL 2 BF173.F76 [1932]
  Continues the earlier series, but now incorporates the later tripartite schema of id-ego-superego.
  
  
• ---. "The 'uncanny'". SE XVII, PFL 14. [1919]
  The repetition compulsion, as illustrated in the writings of E. T. A. Hoffmann.
  

Freud, Sigmund. The Freud Reader. Ed. Peter Gay. New York : W.W. Norton, 1989. BF173.F6255

Freud's output is huge, and his concepts, hypotheses and even the very framework within which it's all set change over the course of half a century's investigations. If you're doing some serious study on Freud, navigation aids are an enormous help. The New York Freudian Society publishes online (and quite free) an invaluable set of abstracts of the entire contents of the Standard Edition.

Inevitable: Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate's Freud for Beginners (BF109.F74A77). Timely: Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Thought for the Twenty First Century, by Michael Kahn (BF173 .K32): a straight-forward introduction. Older (1971), but well worth a read: Richard Wollheim's Freud (BF173.W65).

The Cambridge Companion to Freud, edited by Jerome Neu, is part of an excellent series (BF109.F74 C36): a good overview, and excellent place to begin investigating. Roger Horrocks's Freud Revisited: Psychoanalytic Themes in the Modern Age (BF173.H7635) is a good overview arguing for Freud's centrality to contemporary thought.

Timothy Leuers, of Kurume University, Japan, has a very useful series of web sites on Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Zizek and Bakhtin: try his Freudian Links: An Index of Freud and Psychoanalysis-related Resources

The first major biography of Freud is by Ernest Jones, one of the generation of analysts trained by Freud: The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (BF109.F74 J66). Peter Gay's Freud: A Life for Our Time is a more recent biography (BF109.F74 G39).

Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester's Freud's Women (BF109.F74 A86) is an intriguing book on the roles women played in the early development of psychoanalysis, from Freud's family, to his patients, to the early women analysts such as Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Hélène Deutsch and Melanie Klein. See also Edith Kurzweil's Freudians and Feminists (BF175.5.F45K87).

Also useful for contextualization is Stephen Mitchell and Margaret J. Black's Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (BF173.M546).

Jean Laplanche and Jean-Baptiste Pontalis's The Language of Psychoanalysis (RC437.L3) is invaluable. It's a glossary of psychoanalytic terminology, paying careful attention to just where and how terms get introduced, and to the differences in meaning and use throughout Freud's career. It's not an introductory text as such, but it's very useful for orientating yourself if you're doing any serious reading of Freud--a valuable complement to the NY Freudian Society's abstracts (above). A small selection of the book appeared as the Appendices to Yale French Studies 48 (1972): 179-202 (the issue with Lacan's "Seminar on 'The purloined letter'").

Jean Laplanche's Life and Death in Psychoanalysis, on the drives, is a good introduction to Laplanche's own very interesting take on Freud (BF175 .L37).

Freud's "Dora" case history is of key interest for all sorts of reasons. Bernheimer and Kahane's famous collection, In Dora's Case : Freud, Hysteria, Feminism (RC509.9.I5) is a fine set of essays on it.

Peter Gay's work on Freud is always of great interest: Reading Freud: Explorations and Entertainments (BF173 .G3725). So is John Forrester's, and given its subtitle, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, and Derrida is particularly appropraite for this course (RC504.F63). And Roger Horrocks's Freud Revisited: Psychoanalytic Themes in the Postmodern Age (BF173 .H7635) has some interesting material on the influence of psychoanalysis.