TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong, Philip
TI  - Shakespeare in psychoanalysis 
T2  - Accents on Shakespeare
SN  - 0415207223
U1  - 822.33 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English Literature
KW  - English Drama
KW  - Psychoanalysis and literature
KW  - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
KW  - Psychology in literature
KW  - Drama--Psychological aspects
KW  - England
N2  - 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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