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by James E. Groves


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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, the 'good-enough' mother, the compulsion to repeat and the death instinct, James E. Groves shows how Hamlet can shed new light on understanding psychoanalytic theory, and how psychoanalysis can in turn enrich our understanding of Shakespeare's work. Perhaps the most radical feature of psychoanalysis is its tradition of self-examination. Mirroring it, the book throughout uses an eclectic, subjective critical approach to study how the poetry of Hamlet creates its realistically flawed and believably complex characters.

Combining deep, insightful knowledge of Shakespeare and of psychoanalysis, Hamlet on the Couch will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as literary scholars.

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  • Title Hamlet on the Couch: What Shakespeare Taught Freud
  • Author James E. Groves
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2017-10-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781138556294 / 1138556297
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Shakespeare, William, Psychology and literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017028741
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

About the author

James E. Groves, MD, is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He practices psychotherapy, supervises psychiatry and psychology trainees on their psychodynamic cases, and offers tutorials in Literature and Psychiatry.

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