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The Mind According to Shakespeare Psychoanalysis in the Bard's Writing
Marvin Bennett Krims
Book Code: C9081
ISBN: 0-275-99081-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99081-7
240 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2006
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book in question brings a sort of freshness to psychoanalytic readings of Shakespeare. Throughout the book Krims constructs an analogy between reading and clinical therapeutic work. I believe that we could discern three levels of this analogy, each of them characterized by a different level of originality and importance....[K]rims offers some original contributions to psychoanalytic studies of Shakespeare.
    —Metapsychology     March 27, 2007
  • Krims puts Shakespeare's characters on the couch and makes some observation's about the Bard's mental state when he made them do what they do.
    —Reference & Research Book News     February 2007
  • Endorsement From Murray M. Schwartz
    Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing
    Emerson College:     Marvin Krims has lucidly and unpretentiously combined deep psychoanalytic experience with love of language to create new understandings of Shakespeare's imaginative capacity. This book has a steady, cumulative power expanding our appreciation of Shakespearean genius. The Mind According to Shakespeare is a delight to read.
  • Endorsement From Norman N. Holland
    Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar
    Professor of English
    University of Florida:     By looking at Shakespeare's characters as real people, Marvin Krims has written a stunning series of essays that combine the clinical experience of a distinguished psychoanalyst with the sagacity of a wise literary critic. This is a book that will reward any reader interested in Shakespeare or simply in human nature or their own inner selves.
  • Endorsement From Jeffrey Berman
    Professor of English, State University of New York, Albany
    author of Empathic Teaching: Education for Life:     Dr. Krims reveals many minds: those of Shakespeare's characters, that of the playwright himself, and, in a fascinating Epilogue, the psychoanalyst's own mind....The literary interpretations offered throughout the book reveal the analyst's openness, generosity and wisdom. If I were one of Shakespeare's characters, I would love to be analyzed by Dr. Krims--and I suspect the Bard himself would find such an analysis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Description: Dr. Krims, a psychoanalyst for more than three decades, takes readers into the sonnets and characters of Shakespeare and unveils the Bard's talent for illustrating psychoanalytical issues. These "hidden" aspects of the characters are one reason they feel real and, thus, have such a powerful effect, explains Krims. In exploring Shakespeare's characters, readers may also learn much about their own inner selves. In fact, Krims explains in one chapter how reading Shakespeare and other works helped him resolve his own inner conflicts. Topics of focus include Prince Hal's aggression, Hotspur's fear of femininity, Hamlet's frailty, Romeo's childhood trauma and King Lear's inability to grieve. In one essay, Krims offers a mock psychoanalysis of Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing. All of the essays look at the unconscious motivations of Shakespeare's characters, and, in doing so, both challenge and extend common understandings of his texts.
LC Card Number: 2006020998
LCC Class: PR3065
Dewey Class: 822
PDF Catalogs:
Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf
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