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New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains

New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains

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Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 1032308303
ISBN13: 9781032308302
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It has been over two decades since the publication of the last major edited collection focused on psychoanalysis and early modern culture. In Shakespeare studies, the New Historicism and cognitive psychology have hindered a dynamic conversation engaging depth-oriented models of the mind from taking place. The essays in New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains seek to redress this situation, by engaging a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic theory and criticism, from Freud to the present, to read individual plays closely. These essays show how psychoanalytic theory helps us to rethink the plays' history of performance; their treatment of gender, sexuality, and race; their view of history and trauma; and the ways in which they anticipate contemporary psychodynamic treatment. Far from simply calling for a conventional return to Freud, the essays collected here initiate an exciting conversation between Shakespeare studies and psychoanalysis in the hopes of radically transforming both disciplines. It is time to listen, once again, to seething brains.

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