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The Tyranny of Type in Shakespeare and Jung: Tragedy and One-Sidedness

The Tyranny of Type in Shakespeare and Jung: Tragedy and One-Sidedness

Qwarnström, Sofie

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Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyMental Health

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 5, 2026

ISBN10: 1041091923
ISBN13: 9781041091929
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 5 2026
Pages: 328
Language: English

This book reads Shakespeare's plays through the lens of Jung's theory of psychological types, and shows how Shakespeare dramatises personality imbalance, one-sidedness, and the neglected inferior function; anticipating the analyst by three hundred years.

Shedding a new light on Shakespeare's characters in order to help you gain a deeper understanding of Jung's Psychological Types; these chapters flesh out the role of the inferior function in communication, resilience, and conflict. With an eye to the dream-like logic of Shakespeare's plays, this book uses the lens of Jung's typology to set up Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Richard II, King Lear, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth and Julius Caesar in pairs of contrasting typological constellations, or case studies, of different forms of one-sidedness. The author shows how extreme identification with a single psychological principle slowly comes to define the whole of our experiential reality, and how this leads to inner division, failure to integrate the less developed sides of ourselves (the inferior functions) and destructive consequences for both individual mental health and societal wellbeing.

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