Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare literary theory dramatic arts and psychoanalytic theory. It is also accessible to readers theatre-goers and those who have an interest in the human condition. With intellectual rigour and close textual analysis it values the insights of many creative writers such as T. S. Eliot James Joyce W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge as well as Sigmund Freud Heinz Kohut and D.W. Winnicott. For the clinician this book introduces new theories in psychoanalysis based upon the text and clinical experience. Psychoanalysts looking at literature are at a disadvantage as the value system belongs solely to the realm of literary theory proper. Literary theory in turn often finds what the scholar seeks. It is not surprising that this potentially enriching combination of literary theory and psychoanalysis has had difficulty sustaining its relevance and tends towards reductionism. |What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis A Local Habitation and a Name | Mental Health
