Course Code: ENG 3003 Course Title: Literature and Psychology TPC 2 0 2

Version No. 1.0

Course Pre-requisites/
Co-requisites Nil

Anti-requisites (if any).

Nil

Objectives: 1. To familiarise learners with the psychological

underlying of human behaviour and how art and
literature reflect them

2. To enable them to understand the functioning of human

mind while being engaged in the production or reception
of art and literature

Expected Outcome: 1. The learners will understand the psychological layers of

art and literature

2. The learners will be able to appreciate or criticise

literature and cultural products using their higher order
thinking skills

Module No. 1 Introduction 4 hours

 Introduction to Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

 Introducing the theories of Freud, Jung and Lacan

Module No. 2 Freud and Psychoanalysis 6 hours

 Interpreting Literature
 Freudian Theories of Psychoanalysis
 Re-reading Hamlet

Module No. 3 Jungian Reflections 6 hours

 Archetypal criticism
 Jungian approaches and appreciation of literature and art
 Jungian archetypes v/s Indian philosophy
 Reading of select Greek and Indian literature in terms of Jungian theories

Module No. 4 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 6 hours

 Lacanian Psychoanalysis and theory of language
 Lacanian notion of psychoanalytical criticism
 Reading of select literature – The Panchathanthra Stories

Module No. 5 Practical Applications 8 hours

• Reading Good Youngman Brown

• Watching Wuthering heights (1992 Version)
• Reading Where Shall We Go This Summer?
• Critical appreciation of select products of popular culture (films, songs, advertisements)
Text Books Text book will be compiled and updated on VTop
Reference Materials
Blakey Vermeule. Why Do We Care about Literary
Characters? JHU Press. 2010

Keith Oatley, Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction.

Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Knapp, John . New Psychologies and Modern Assessments:

Rethinking Classics in Literature, Including Film and
Music.VStyle, Vol. 44, No. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2010.

Patrick Colm Hogan. The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative

Universals and Human Emotion Cambridge University Press,
2003.

Mode of Evaluation CAT 60%; Internal Assessment 40%

CAT-1 Weightage (in 20

%)
CAT-2 Weightage (in 20
%)
CAT-3 Weightage (in 20
%)
Internal Weightage (in 25
Assessment %)
Project Weightage (in 15
%)
Total (in %) 100

Recommended by the 12/11/2019

Board of Studies on
Date of Approval by the --------
Academic Council