Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that, if we pay attention, can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. It is my hope that readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal p
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE Why this book was written; PART I THE PIVOTAL POSITION OF HAMLET; HAMLET'S ENIGMAS; CHAPTER ONE 'Hamlet': the inability to mourn and the inability to love; PART II THE POET AND HIS CALLING; CHAPTER TWO 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': how Shakespeare won the right to write plays; CHAPTER THREE 'The Tempest': the abdication of creativity; CHAPTER FOUR 'Timon of Athens': the loss of creativity; PART III THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX; CHAPTER FIVE 'Richard III': the Oedipus complex and the villain
CHAPTER SIX 'Julius Caesar' and Freud's 'Totem and Taboo'CHAPTER SEVEN 'Macbeth': an audacious variant on the oedipal theme; CHAPTER EIGHT 'Antony and Cleopatra': dangerous dotage; CHAPTER NINE 'Coriolanus': an astounding description of a destructive mother-child relationship; CHAPTER TEN 'King Lear': the daughter as a replacement for the mother; CHAPTER ELEVEN 'Richard II': abdication as a father's reaction to the Oedipus complex; PART IV INTRAPSYCHIC CONFLICT; CHAPTER TWELVE 'Measure for Measure': the disintegration of a harsh superego; PART V THE BATTLE AGAINST PARANOIA.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 'Othello': motiveless malignity or latent homosexuality?CHAPTER FOURTEEN 'The Winter's Tale': latent homosexuality and paranoia; PART VI THE HOMOSEXUAL COMPROMISE; CHAPTER FIFTEEN 'The Merchant of Venice': a portrayal of masochistic homosexuality; CHAPTER SIXTEEN 'Twelfth Night': a sublimation of bisexuality in homosexuality; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index
Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays
Erschienen:
2013
Verlag:
Karnac Books
Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner...
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Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that, if we pay attention, can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. It is my hope that readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal p
