1st Edition

What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis A Local Habitation and a Name

By Dorothy T. Grunes, Jerome M Grunes Copyright 2014
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Preface , On drama and psychoanalysis , The metaphysics and metapsychology of evil in Othello , Mothers in Shakespeare—absent and present , Disguise and disavowal in The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet , Visions of self in Julius Caesar , Madness and the death of self in Titus Andronicus , The Future of an Illusionist , What Shakespeare teaches us about aging parents and their adult children in King Lear , Afterword

Biography

Dorothy T Grunes