[HPforGrownups] Long OT Re: Freudian/Lacanian

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 7425

Alicia/Sue Spinnet wrote:

> No dissention here.  I've spent the last semester overanalyzing all
> of my favorite classics in sophomore English to the point where I
> never want to read them, or even think about them, again.  "The
> Catcher in the Rye", "Huck Finn"... my teacher even found a way to
> ruin "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" for me!  *cries*  Ahem.
> Anyway.  If that man even *touches* on HP, I will scream and throw my
> grammar book across the room in a display of insubordination.  Or
> maybe not.

I had an enlightened English teacher my senior year of high school (one time
he gave us all a copy of a list of books they weren't supposed to teach, and
had us each pick one to read and report on!)  whose last assignment was that
we write an essay on anything we wanted, provided it had something to do
with something we'd done. I carpe diem'd and wrote "Great Expectations
Unfulfilled, or Why English is as Dull as the Dickens," complaining about
precisely this--that students are not free to experience the literature
because the teachers are too pushy in interpreting for them, and adding way
too much "out there" stuff in the bargain. I got an A-. I liked that
teacher.

--Amanda, English major