Literature and Psychoanalysis

[londonite]

Hi there

 

I am a UK student that is interested in doing a Masters in the areas of Literature and psychoanalysis. I have mostly been looking to apply to English Literature Masters, but thought maybe comparative literature would be more suited? Although I'm not really interested in taking language classes or studying literature in other languages. I have also been considering more interdisciplinary programs like that of Chicago's MAPH and other liberal arts/studies Masters.
If anyone has any experience or advice that would be great!!

 

Thank you

[TheCleve]

Psychoanalysis has been used (and derided) most consistently and cogently by feminist and queer scholars in the past few decades, so without knowing what specific aspects of psychoanalysis and literature you are interested in, I would suggest you think about schools that have some people working in gender and sexuality. You might also think about some schools or professors who came out of schools with some heavy theoretical chops -- Duke, Chicago, various UCs -- because nobody, but nobody, gets out of a theory track without looking pretty thoroughly through Freud, Lacan et al.

 

But honestly, psychoanalysis is pretty ubiquitous in English. Not everybody loves it or uses it -- in fact, many many scholars roll their eyes at it -- but most profs who have been trained in the past 30 years have at least a working knowledge of psychoanalytic discourse. 

 

Apart from that, I know that Martin Gliserman at Rutgers-New Brunswick works with psychoanalysis and actually has a psychoanalytic private practice. 

[londonite]

Thank you really helpful!

[sebastiansteddy]

SUNY Buffalo is big in Psychoanalysis. They have a Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis. They also have a stand-alone MA program if you do not want to commit to the PhD.