Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis - Method in the Madness

This edited volume presents a collection of new essays on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis from leading figures in the field, making a strong statement about the ongoing relevance of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and method to the study of literary texts in general, and to Shakespeare's poems and plays in particular. Drawing from a vibrant and diverse dialogue with psychoanalysis, this collection manages to interrogate Shakespeare's treatment of gender, race, social customs, history, trauma, and the construction of the self.  

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I : Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 2 : The Role of Shakespeare in the Development of Freud s Theory.- Chapter 3 :The readiness for transference: Hamlet s lesson.- Chapter 4 : Representing Subjectivity in Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet.- Chapter 5 : Wilfred R. Bion and the Psychoanalytic Study of Thinking in Measure for Measure.- Chapter 6:Coriolanus.- Part II. Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare.- Chapter 7 : The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Shakespeare s Venus and Adonis.- Chapter 8:Antithetical Words, Rape, and Ekphrasis in Shakespeare s The Rape of Lucrece.- Chapter 9 : Hamlet, Freud, Laplanche: a Copernican reading.- Chapter 10 : Emulous Fidelity: Shakespeare, Jack Spicer, and Troilus.- Chapter 11 : Skepticism and Dysphoria: On Two Tales of Winter.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bates (Editor), Catherine Bates (Editor), James W. Stone (Editor), James W Stone (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.12.2025
• EAN: 9783032078964
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3207896-4
• No. of pages: 317
• Illustrations: VIII, 317 p. 17 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Psychoanalyse, Literaturtheorie, Psychoanalysis, Freud, Critical Theory, Literary theory, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, early modern literature, psychoanalytic theory, Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis