Provocative and engaging, this text invites you into a unique thought experiment, using portraits from some of Shakespeare's most stirring works to illustrate how our psychological understanding of human nature and personality can be significantly...
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Provocative and engaging, this text invites you into a unique thought experiment, using portraits from some of Shakespeare's most stirring works to illustrate how our psychological understanding of human nature and personality can be significantly enriched through literature. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I what should the intelligence agent learn about personality? -- Chapter One On Baboons, Masks, and Character -- All The World's A Stage? -- Chapter Two Dr. Bach's Flower Remedies and the Complexity of Personality -- What are mental constructs? -- Chapter Three We Have Never Been Too Modern: The Cognitive-Biological ... -- Types of threat -- Sperm competition and the poor American soldiers -- From threat to trust -- On cry and trust -- Street cons know about trust -- Trust violation -- On the asymmetry of trust and distrust -- Discussion -- Chapter Four We Have Always Been Too Modern: How to Weave Together the Biological and ... -- Note -- Part II Shakespeare for the intelligence agent -- Chapter Five Julius Caesar: On Trust and Reason -- Whenever there is doubt . . . -- Brutus, Brutus lama sabachthani -- On gentlemen and the threat to status -- On Brutus, the moralist, and the way he has been seduced -- On the couch: Cassius, the psychoanalyst, meets Brutus, the patient -- On seduction, elephants, and human beings -- But Caesar is not a stupid general -- No fear! Caesar and courage -- Postmortem -- Discussion: What have we learned about personality from Julius Caesar? -- Note -- Chapter Six King Lear: On Flattery, Grooming, and Treason -- "And your large speeches may your deeds approve" -- The Fool as the remover of masks -- The madness of King Lear -- Discussion -- Chapter Seven Othello: On Sperm Competition and the Paranoid General -- "Lift your eyes on high": What is the difference between "what" and "who" you are? -- "The Twenty-.Seventh Man" -- "I never found a man that knew how to love himself" -- Into the trap -- Discussion -- Note -- Chapter Eight Macbeth: Personalities as Formed in between People -- Here comes Lady Macbeth.
