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Dream Sequences in Shakespeare

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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. In this volume, Meg Harris Williams explores the fundamental distinction between the surface meanings of plot or argument and the deep grammar of dreamlife, applied not only to those plays known as ‘dream-plays’ but also to critical sequences throughout Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Through a post-Kleinian model based on the thinking of Bion, Meltzer, and Money-Kyrle, 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. Dream Sequences in Shakespeare is important reading for psychoanalysts, playwrights, and students.

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ISBN: 9780367635510
Publication date: 30th November 2020
Author: Meg Harris Williams
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 174 pages
Genres: Classic and pre-20th century plays
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Psychology: states of consciousness
Psychotherapy