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Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays.
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 the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Karnac Books,
2013.
©2013 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.