Full Description
It has been over two decades since the publication of the last major edited collection focused on psychoanalysis and early modern culture. In Shakespeare studies, the New Historicism and cognitive psychology have hindered a dynamic conversation engaging depth-oriented models of the mind from taking place. The essays in New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains seek to redress this situation, by engaging a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic theory and criticism, from Freud to the present, to read individual plays closely. These essays show how psychoanalytic theory helps us to rethink the plays' history of performance; their treatment of gender, sexuality, and race; their view of history and trauma; and the ways in which they anticipate contemporary psychodynamic treatment. Far from simply calling for a conventional "return to Freud," the essays collected here initiate an exciting conversation between Shakespeare studies and psychoanalysis in the hopes of radically transforming both disciplines. It is time to listen, once again, to seething brains.
Contents
James Newlin and James W. Stone: Introduction
Cryptonomy, Necrology, Ghosts
Adam Rzepka - "That dim monument": The fantasy of the crypt in Romeo and Juliet and Antigone
Kasey Evans - The Time Is Out of Joint: Hamlet Speaks to the Dead
Andrew Barnaby - "Mine Own, and Not Mine Own": Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Early-Modern Psychotheology
Festivity and Sacrifice
Russell J. Bodi - Hamlet's Nobler Choice: The Interior Game
James W. Stone - "Is this a holiday?": Festivity and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar
History and Trauma
Devori Kimbro - "All Badged with Blood": Equivocation as Trauma in Macbeth
Gabriel Rieger - "Crawling between earth and heaven": Sadomasochism and Subjectivity in Hamlet
Zackariah Long - The Primal Scene in Pericles: Trauma, Typology, and Mythology
Gender Trouble
W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. - Phallic Fantasies in The Taming of the Shrew
Drew Daniel - The Gilded Puddle: Scatology, Race and Masochism in Antony and Cleopatra
James Newlin - Staging the Woman in The Tempest and Ex Machina
Shakespeare and the Matter of Clinical Practice
Nicholas Bellinson - 'method in't': Hamlet as analysand
Richard M. Waugaman, M.D.: What Shakespeare Teaches Us about Psychological Complexity
Vera J. Camden - An Afterword on Apocalypse and Afterwardness
