Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare

<p>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 Bard's universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have in common. In today's world we are moved by Shakespeare's plays whose themes are brought to life with a richness and creativity that has not dimmed with the passing of time. Echoing Freud's fascination with Shakespeare Michael Conran Peter Hildebrand Gerald Wooster and Peter Buckroyd find much to feast on in King Lear Twelfth Night All's Well That Ends Well The Tempest Macbeth and The Winter's 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. </p>