090091 VO Area of Ancient Greek Literature (Prose) (2024S)

Choose one the of the questions below. Write an essay of 2000 to 2500 words explaining your answer. Cite specific passages from the in-class readings to back up your position. A good essay should have an introduction, a thesis statement, and a conclusion. Please email me your essay not later than July 15th

1. Foucault and Freud have a complicated relationship. In part this can be seen in their respective readings of Artemidorus and in Foucault’s. Discuss how you understand psychoanalysis after Foucault’s History of Sexuality.
2. Freud was fascinated by Oedipus Rex. Lacan’s Ethics of Psychoanalysis focuses on Antigone. How does the focus on these two different Sophoclean tragedies produce different understandings of the aims of psychoanalysis?
3. In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud introduces the concept of the Death Drive. It is key to Lacan’s concept of “enjoyment.” Define that concept and illustrate its use for literary studies by citing specific passages from Catullus and or Sophocles.