What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis : a Local Habitation and a Name.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.

Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human, this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare, literary theory, dramatic arts, and psychoanalytic theory. It is also accessible to readers, theatre-goers and those who have an interest in the human condition. With intellectual rigour, and close textual analysis, it values the insights of many creative writers such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, W.H. Auden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as Sigmund Freud, Heinz Kohut and D.W. Winnicott. For the clinician, this book introduces new theories in psychoanalysis based upon the text and clinical experience. Psychoanalysts looking at literature are at a disadvantage, as the value system belongs solely to the realm of literary theory proper. Literary theory, in turn, often finds what the scholar seeks. It is not surprising that this potentially enriching combination of literary theory and psychoanalysis has had difficulty sustaining its relevance and tends towards reductionism. As a bringing together of both literature and psychoanalysis this book is unique in that it includes that which is available to both canons. In this way, the authors hope to encourage readers to take part in the drama and in the analytic process.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION On drama and psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER ONE The metaphysics and metapsychology of evil in Othello -- CHAPTER TWO Mothers in Shakespeare-absent and present -- CHAPTER THREE Disguise and disavowal in The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet -- CHAPTER FOUR Visions of self in Julius Caesar -- CHAPTER FIVE Madness and the death of self in Titus Andronicus -- CHAPTER SIX The future of an illusionist -- CHAPTER SEVEN What Shakespeare teaches us about aging parents and their adult children in King Lear -- AFTERWORD -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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