This psychoanalysis and literature course will be focused on dreams and other related psychic phenomena: fantasies, wishes, symptoms, desire, delusions, hallucinations. We will begin by examining the psychoanalytic method of dream analysis, and will think about what dreams have to do with narrative more broadly (that is, is there any difference between a dream and its telling? What do dreams, symptoms, fantasies, etc., have to do with language?) We will read two Freudian case studies that are centered around patients’ dreams to think through how dream logic can be given narrative shape, and we will read other of Freud’s papers (and Lacan’s commentaries on them) to learn more about the psychic mechanics that go into the making of dream and unconscious logic. In then turning to works of literature that give shape to something of this dream logic, we will examine the idea of the written text in/and psychoanalysis (or narrative and the dream), keeping always in mind its complex relation to the spoken word.