#booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory #freud #lacan Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa ENG 3375 -- Contemporary Literary Theory Week 5 An introduction to the key concepts of Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis, emphasizing the impact of various Freudian traditions on Contemporary Literary Theory. The lecture summarizes the key points of Freud’s seminal work, The Interpretation of Dreams – including the Oedipal Complex and the Dream Work operations of Condensation and Displacement. Finally, Freud’s influence on several figures is discussed: Carl Jung, Northrop Frye, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey, Slavoj Žižek, Harold Bloom and Peter Brooks. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yX33BHBRCH1fP_eApgZE3KodsCdU7yrh/view?usp=sharing Course Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/contemporary-literary-theory-2025-26 0:00 - Introduction 2:38 - The Topographic Theory: Consciousness, Pre-consciousness, the Unconscious 5:18 - The Structural Model: Id, Ego, Superego 9:02 - Editorial Note: my criticism of psychoanalytic literary theory 10:40 - The Oedipal Complex (Sophocles' drama) 19:40 - Hamlet and Oedipus (Ernest Jones and Laurence Olivier) 26:40 - The Dream Work: Condensation and Displacement Related Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RsoS2917N0&t=1448s&pp=ygUrbGVvIHN0cmF1cyBhbmQgdGhlIHRocmVlIHdhdmVzIG9mIG1vZGVybml0eQ%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWps2AkdcfE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=1&t=963s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHwZl6kC5zs&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=2&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuU_CexrjHA&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=9&pp=iAQBsAgC