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Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements A Note on References Introducing. Part One:Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis 1. In Vienna 2. In Paris 3. In Johannesburg Part Two:Psychoanalysis out of Shakespeare 4. Shakespeare's Memory 5. Shakespeare's Sex Conclusion Bibliography
Biography
Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of Shakespeare's Visual Regime: Tragedy, Psychoanalysis and the Gaze, and has also published articles on New Zealand literature.
'I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes in the new series edited by Terence Hawkes and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism.' - Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History, University of Massachusetts,
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