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Freud and Fiction - Psychoanalysis in Literary Theory

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This lecture examines Peter Brooks’s interpretation of Freud’s pleasure principle and death wish, tracing their origins and application to narrative structures. It concludes by applying the argument to the children’s story Tony the Tow Truck.

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- Chapter 1. Brooks' Debt to Jakobson and de Man
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- Chapter 2. Brooks' Debt to Freud
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- Chapter 3. Brooks' Departure from Freud
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- Chapter 4. Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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- Chapter 5. "The Aim of All Life is Death"
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- Chapter 6. Merging the Pleasure Principle with the Death Wish
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- Chapter 7. Tony the Tow Truck Revisited
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    Kursus Freud and Fiction – Psychoanalysis in Literary Theory ini benar-benar membuka cara pandang baru terhadap karya sastra. Materinya menarik karena mengaitkan teori psikoanalisis Freud dengan tokoh dan narasi fiksi secara mendalam. Penjelasannya cukup kompleks, tapi tetap bisa diikuti jika sabar. Cocok buat yang ingin memahami hubungan antara psikologi dan sastra secara lebih filosofis.
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