Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 understand 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 understanding psychoanalytic theory and how psychoanalysis can in turn enrich our understanding 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.
Title: Hamlet On The Couch What Shakespeare Taught Freud
Author(s): Groves James E. (Massachusetts General Hospital And Harvard Medical School Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138556294
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 10/24/2017
Category: Clinical Psychology