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This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle understanding of conscious and unconscious emotions achieved by psychoanalytic practice can bring new ways of understanding classic works of drama. The argument of the book, set out in its introduction and exemplified in its discussion of individual dramatists and plays, is that western drama has represented the central tensions of societies as crises in the relationships of gender and generation, through dramatic explorations of the inner life of families. This is the common theme which links the book's analysis of Medea, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream amongst others. The value of this book lies in the originality of its analysis of individual plays, and the subtlety with which it brings psychoanalytic and sociological insights together.

Psychoanalysis and art. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Theater --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Art and psychoanalysis --- Art --- Psychological aspects.

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Aesthetics of art --- Art --- Psychoanalysis and art. --- Philosophy. --- Psychoanalysis and art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Art and psychoanalysis --- Philosophy --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation

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Freud's Italian Journey takes the psychoanalytical texts of Freud on the visual arts and literature as its objects for analysis. While the biographical figure of Freud appears throughout its pages, it is not simply a psychobiographical reading of Freud, his personal circumstances and their relationship to his texts. Rather the processes of interpretation begun by Freud are turned on Freud himself, thus eventually displacing and questioning his theoretical mastery. Freud's Italian Journey also argues that Freud's interest in, frequent journeys to, and obsession with Italy profoundly shaped and informed his elaboration of psychoanalysis. The volume organizes its material around the major Italian cities which were the destinations of Freud's travel, and the sites of the artworks he examined. Freud's many Italian holidays were crucial for his self-analysis and methodology, but it is also argued here that his papers on Italian subjects must be read as texts marked by fascination and allurement, crossed with anxiety and resistance, inscribed by memory and forgetting. Journeys to Italy heightened Freud's sense of the visual, and it is contended that the visual dimension of Freud's writing is crucial to an understanding of his elaboration of the theory of psychoanalysis. The relation between image and text is at the heart of Freud's analysis of works of art as he founds a critical methodology in which the two are interrelated, image illustrating idea and idea needing to express itself in image, but neither finally resolvable into the other. Thus the argument of Freud's Italian Journey follows as its model the famous elaboration of the fort:da game by Freud, moving back and forth between Freud's life and his texts, between psychoanalytical and philosophical systems, between the written and the visual. This leads to the broader conclusion that Freud might provide the key to a new practice of criticism, and a new way of 'seeing' and understanding visual images.

Depth psychology --- Psychological study of literature --- Freud, Sigmund --- Psychoanalysis and art --- Psychoanalytic interpretation --- Interpretation in psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalysis --- Art and psychoanalysis --- Art

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Psychoanalysis and art --- Art and psychoanalysis --- Art --- Freud, Sigmund, --- Freud, Sigmund --- Archaeological collections --- Freud Museum --- London (England) --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Lunnainn (England) --- Antiquities --- Private collections

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philosophy of art --- Art --- art [fine art] --- Aesthetics --- Iconography --- psychology --- Depth psychology --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- kunst en psychoanalyse --- 7.01 --- Psychoanalysis and art. --- Psychoanalysis and art --- Kunsttheorie ; kunst, kunstenaars en psychologie --- Art and psychoanalysis --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- CDL --- art [discipline] --- kunstpsychologie