Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

By:

Philip Armstrong

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Hardback

Series:

Accents on Shakespeare

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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. 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; Freud's analytic session; the Parisian intellectual scene; Hollywood; the virtual space of the PC

Author 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.

Release date Australia

May 24th, 2001

Author

Philip Armstrong

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

284

Series

Accents on Shakespeare

Dimensions

140x216x19

ISBN-13

9780415207218

Product ID

1679601

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