This course will explore the literary roots and effects of the explosion of the unconscious into consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century. Freud's psychoanalytic revolution will reveal itself to be more precisely a significant event in an evolutionary process. Freud himself repeatedly acknowledged his intellectual debt to literature. We will examine psychologically-minded literary texts that precede and, in some cases, preview Freud's theories, those theories themselves, and texts (theoretical and literary) that reflect the immense influence of psychoanalysis in the twentieth century. Authors might include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Goethe, Hoffmann, Flaubert, Carroll, Kafka, Duras, Garcia Marquez, Morrison. Requirements: active class participation, reading journals, two short and one longer paper. No prerequisites.