RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franz Kafka, Psychoanalysis
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Course: history and rhetoric of the science of the unconscious and how it informed modern culture. Travel from the prehistory about the unconscious to the freudian notion of the unconscious, and then to the era post freud. The unconscious holds a different universe than the conscious/ rational belief (no relation to time and space) Author is franz kafka: 1883 to 1924 (psychoanalysis was already present), The piece is fiction, serves as a parable, with hidden philosophical meanings. Samsa wakes up from anxious dreams and finds himself transformed into a bug. He tries to adjust himself in the bed to be more comfortable but he cannot roll over or scratch himself. He starts thinking about the demands of his job, how he has to pay off his parents" debt, how he missed his alarm and is now late for work, and contemplates whether he should still go to work.
