Shakespeare in psychoanalysis
Material type: TextSeries: Accents on ShakespearePublication details: London Routledge 2001Description: xii,269pISBN: 0415207223Subject(s): English Literature | English Drama | Psychoanalysis and literature | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | Psychology in literature | Drama--Psychological aspects | EnglandDDC classification: 822.33 Summary: The link between psychoanalysis as a mode of interpretation and Shakespeare's works is well known. But rather than merely putting Shakespeare on the couch, Philip Armstrong focuses on the complex and fascinatingly fruitful mutual relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory. He shows how the theories of Freud, Rank, Jones, Lacan, Erikson, and others are themselves in a large part the product of reading Shakespeare; and that, in turn, their theories shape our interactions with literary texts in ways we may not recognise. Armstrong provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts. This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts, including: *the early modern stage *Hamlet and The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet *Freud's analytic session *the Parisian intellectual scene *the contact zone of pre-apartheid South Africa *the virtual space of cinema, TV and the PC.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The link between psychoanalysis as a mode of interpretation and Shakespeare's works is well known. But rather than merely putting Shakespeare on the couch, Philip Armstrong focuses on the complex and fascinatingly fruitful mutual relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory. He shows how the theories of Freud, Rank, Jones, Lacan, Erikson, and others are themselves in a large part the product of reading Shakespeare; and that, in turn, their theories shape our interactions with literary texts in ways we may not recognise.
Armstrong provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts.
This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts, including:
*the early modern stage
*Hamlet and The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet
*Freud's analytic session
*the Parisian intellectual scene
*the contact zone of pre-apartheid South Africa
*the virtual space of cinema, TV and the PC.
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