40 Citations
Chapter 2 Evolving Conceptions of Psychobiography and the Study of Lives Encounters With Psychoanalysis , Personality Psychology , and Historical Science
- Psychology
- 2005
19 H ow are we to conceptualize the evolving relations between the study of individual lives and the discipline of psychology? This question is more complex than it first appears. How to…
Hamlet – A Never-Ending Story
- LinguisticsActa Neophilologica
- 2021
This article fuses a survey of the play’s most important standard interpretations with those aspects which may be considered particularly fascinating about this text: the conflict of England’s…
Freud’s Oedipus Complex in the #MeToo Era: A Discussion of the Validity of Psychoanalysis in Light of Contemporary Research
- Psychology
- 2020
The Oedipus complex is a child development construct developed by Sigmond Freud that asserts that all children experience sexual desire towards their opposite sex parent, and failure to accept this…
From Flibbertigibbet to Ernest Jones and Ernst Simmel: Nightmares under Analysis
- Psychology
- 2020
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams denies itself any reference to the immemorial folklore and demonology of nightmares. This telling omission can be linked to the marginal role assigned to the af...
In an Other’s Time: Re-Reading Hamlet with Lacan and Ljubljana to Discover Metametatextuality Beyond the Metatextual
- Art
- 2020
Modern and contemporary readings of Hamlet attempt to reconcile the titular Dane by either criticizing or spurning his subjectivity. I see the play’s intense focus on his iconoclasm not as a failure…
Hamlet’s Tears
- Psychology, ArtHamlet and Emotions
- 2019
This essay begins by asking whether the grieving Hamlet weeps when he makes his wish ‘that this too, too sullied flesh would melt / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew’ (1.2.133–134). Cognizant of…
Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film
- PsychologyThe Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
- 2019
Psychoanalytic treatments of film encounter difficulties resembling those that Plato faced when he criticized tragedy: uncertainty over which persons are the objects of theoretical scrutiny; the call…
Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition
- Psychology
- 2018
In British India, positioning Kali within the thuggee cult and rationalizing human sacrifice ran parallel and witnessed a paradigmatic shift by the end of the nineteenth century. The cult provided a…
Sylvia Plath: a psychobiographical study
- Psychology
- 2018
Increased interest in psychobiographical research has resulted in national and international researchers advocating its value. Although South Africa has seen an increase in the number of…
The Play Within a Play’s the Thing
- Art, Linguistics
- 2018
Abstract The play within a play has long been understood as Hamlet’s attempt to catch the conscience of the King. But is that all it is? Perhaps there’s more to the Murder of Gonzago than either…