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.
Key Features
- Exploration of Shakespeare's Plays: Examines plays through a psychoanalytic lens.
- Poetic Language: Highlights Shakespeare’s use of language to illustrate complex themes.
- Post-Kleinian Model: Utilises theories from Bion, Meltzer, and Money-Kyrle.
- Applicable to Various Works: Analysis extends beyond 'dream-plays' to critical sequences throughout Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
- Target Audience: Important reading for psychoanalysts, playwrights, and students.
Additional Information
In this volume, Meg Harris Williams explores the fundamental distinction between the surface meanings of plot or argument and the deep grammar of dreamlife. 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.
