Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis

Method in the Madness
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-07896-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

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, social customs, history, trauma, and the construction of the self.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stone, James W.

Bates, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

James W. Stone is a lecturer on Shakespeare and early modern literature at American University and on Shakespeare at the Osher Institute at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He taught at the American University in Cairo and at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of (2010) and articles on Shakespeare, Milton, the Renaissance Ovid, film theory, and contemporary Egyptian art. In 2023 he and James Newlin co-edited the essay collection .

Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK. She is author of (1992) (1999); (2007); (2013), winner of the 2015 British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; and (2017), winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Dietz Award. She is also editor of (2010), (2018), (2022), co-edited with Patrick Cheney, (2024), and (2026).