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KMID : 0385320070180010049
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2007 Volume.18 No. 1 p.49 ~ p.56
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Psychoanalytic Appreciation of Shakespeare’s Four Principal Tragedies
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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The British talked big that they could not exchange Shakespeare for India at any price, but his works are a common valuable property of the mankind even though he has been a symbol of the British pride. I think that Shakespeare was a genius with true psychological mindedness, and he wrote many masterpieces under psychoanalytic lens. Freud was fascinated and inspired by Shakespeare. As I studied on his famous four principal tragedies including Hamlet, McBeth, Othello, and King Lear, I reconfirmed that psychoanalytic views properly explain his many tragic characters only with the exception of King Lear’s madness. Shakespeare showed us the universal inner conflicts related with personal wishes and yearnings, desires and fantasies, jealousy and frustrations, revenges and tragic deaths. He said that "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players." That is right. I think that Shakespeare and Freud respectively informed to us the true nature of human psychology by means of the monologues on the stage, and free associations on the couch. But we can not get to a certain conviction in spite of many discussions, because we can not have the informations on their childhood developmental history. This point is an obvious differentia with the results from the real analytic experiences.
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KEYWORD
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Shakespeare, Four tragedies, Psychoanalysis
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