Kafka on the Shore Lesson Plan

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

After watching two videos on the philosophies of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, lead a classwide discussion on the relevance of these ideas to the text of the novel.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5

Structure:

Have students watch these two videos on the philosophy of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and then lead a discussion on the relevance on these ideas to the novel. At this point, the students will have already read the conversation between Oshima and Kafka in which Kafka explains his father's curse and discuss Freud and Jung. Use these...