Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare

Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers link the Bards universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have in common. In todays world we are moved by Shakespeares plays whose themes are brought to life with a richness and creativity that has not dimmed with the passing of time. Echoing Freuds fascination with Shakespeare, Michael Conran, Peter Hildebrand, Gerald Wooster, and Peter Buckroyd find much to feast on in King Lear, Twelfth Night, Alls Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Macbeth, and The Winters Tale. The interplay of inner and outer world, inner and outer reality, brings about a rich tapestry of conflicts, desires, anxieties, challenges and resolutions that were as true then as they are now.