Dream Sequences in Shakespeare: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Synopsis
This book takes a new approach to Shakespeare’s plays, exploring them as dream-thought in the modern psychoanalytic sense of unconscious thinking. Through his commitment to poetic language, Shakespeare offers images and dramatic sequences that illustrate fundamental developmental conflicts, the solutions for which are not preconceived but evolve through the process of dramatisation. In this volume, Meg Harris Williams explores the fundamental distinction between the surface meanings of plot or argument and the deep grammar of dreamlife, applied not only to those plays known as ‘dream-plays’ but also to critical sequences throughout Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Through a post-Kleinian model based on the thinking of Bion, Meltzer, and Money-Kyrle, this book sheds new light on both Shakespeare’s own relation to the play and on the identificatory processes of the playwright, reader, or audience. Dream Sequences in Shakespeare is important reading for psychoanalysts, playwrights, and students.
Copyright:
2021

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
174 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000280807
Related ISBNs:
9780367635497, 9780367635510, 9781003119623
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Meg Harris Williams. The right of Meg Harris Williams to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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