Hamlet on the Couch: What Shakespeare Taught Freud

by James E. Groves

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138556297
• ISBN13: 9781138556294
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"