Course 40: Nonfiction/Essays in the Chaotic Age, Pt. 2

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Sigmund Freud
“The Dream as Wish-Fulfillment” from Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
The Uncanny (1919)
The Ego and the Id (1923)
Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)

M.H. Abrams
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953)

Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels (1979)

Harold Bloom
The Western Canon (1994)