UID:
almahu_9949384814402882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351368681
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1351368680
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9781315150055
,
1315150050
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9781351368698
,
1351368699
,
9781351368674
,
1351368672
Content:
"Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two. Hamlet can be read almost as a psychoanalytic case study and be used to undiferstand and illustrate a range of core psychoanalytic concepts. Covering such basic psychoanalytic concepts as identity, transference and countertransference, the good-enough mother, the compulsion to repeat and the death instinct, James E. Groves shows how Hamlet can shed new light on undiferstanding psychoanalytic theory, and how psychoanalysis can in turn enrich our undiferstanding of Shakespeare's work. Perhaps the most radical feature of psychoanalysis is its tradition of self-examination. Mirroring it, the book throughout uses an eclectic, subjective critical approach to study how the poetry of Hamlet creates its realistically flawed and believably complex characters. Combining deep, insightful knowledge of Shakespeare and of psychoanalysis, Hamlet on the Couch will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as literary scholars."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Prologue -- Who's there?: a question of identity -- The ghost's commandment: 'Revenge my shame' -- Freud's "family romances": power and belonging -- 'Some vicious mole of nature': Bad or just unlucky? -- Mad for thy love: infected by the social emotions -- Rossencraft & Gilderstone: destiny's happy dupes -- The fair Ophelia: Truth or transference? -- 'Wild and whirling words': Freud's phobia, Dora's dream -- To be or not to be?: Conscience and the false self -- Hamlet writes the mousetrap: method acting and metatheater -- The double soliloquy: Freud's 'compulsion to repeat' -- A mirror in the queen's closet: the good enough mother -- The prince and his brothers: war, murder, and manhood -- 'Readiness is all. let be.': disillusion and the strength to bear it -- The final curtain: the ghost and the death instinct.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Groves, James E. Hamlet on the couch. London ; New York: Routlege, 2017 ISBN 9781138556270
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315150055
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