Dream Sequences in Shakespeare: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367635497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Meg Harris Williams

Opis

This book takes a new approach to Shakespeare’s plays, exploring them as dream-thought in the modern psychoanalytic sense of unconscious thinking. The author explores the fundamental distinction between the surface meanings of plot and the deep grammar of dreamlife.

Spis treści

1. The Individual and the Group: Richard II and Julius Caesar  2. The Reason of Love Objects: A Midsummer Night’s Dream  3. Dreamlife and Adolescent Identity in Hamlet and Ophelia  4. Dreams of Dark Corners: Legalism at Play in The Merchant of Venice and Troilus and Cressida  5. Explorations in Minus K: Macbeth and Othello  6. The Turbulence of Aesthetic Conflict: King Lear  7. Love and the Evolution of Thought: Antony and Cleopatra  8. The Organ of Consciousness in Cymbeline  9. A Dream of Reparation: The Winter’s Tale  10. The Birth of Ideas: The Tempest

O autorze

Meg Harris Williams is a writer, literary critic, and artist. She has published many books and papers on the relation between literature, aesthetic experience, and psychoanalysis, specialising in a post-Kleinian perspective. She teaches internationally and is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic, an honorary member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California, and editor for the Harris Meltzer Trust. Her books include Inspiration in Milton and Keats; The Apprehension of Beauty (with Donald Meltzer); A Strange Way of Killing; Five Tales from Shakespeare (for children); The Vale of Soulmaking; Bion’s Dream; The Aesthetic Development; Hamlet in Analysis – A Trial of Faith; The Becoming Room; and The Art of Personality. Website: www.artlit.info.