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A Jungian Study of ShakespeareIntroduction

A Jungian Study of Shakespeare: Introduction [The Collected Works of C. G. Jung culminates in a 732-page index that includes only eight entries on Shakespeare, which reference passages in only two of his plays—Julius Caesar and Macbeth. The little genuine value in Jung’s comments on these plays suggests that the greatest psychologist of the early twentieth century, whose erudition takes a whole volume just to catalog, seems relatively unaware of the world’s greatest literary mind.1 Jungian psychology would be substantially different and richer if Shakespeare had influenced Jung in the way that Sophocles inspired Freud, but psychology’s loss is literary criticism’s opportunity. Even today, more than seventy years after the publication of the first notable Jungian literary criticism by Maud Bodkin,2 some relevant Jungian concepts remain unapplied to Shakespeare, and some of the existing Jungian studies are neither totally accurate nor sufficiently thorough. There is clearly much more to be said, and this study will not be the last ever published on Shakespeare and Jung.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Jungian Study of ShakespeareIntroduction

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
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978-1-349-37690-2
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1 –13
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10.1057/9780230618558_1
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Abstract

[The Collected Works of C. G. Jung culminates in a 732-page index that includes only eight entries on Shakespeare, which reference passages in only two of his plays—Julius Caesar and Macbeth. The little genuine value in Jung’s comments on these plays suggests that the greatest psychologist of the early twentieth century, whose erudition takes a whole volume just to catalog, seems relatively unaware of the world’s greatest literary mind.1 Jungian psychology would be substantially different and richer if Shakespeare had influenced Jung in the way that Sophocles inspired Freud, but psychology’s loss is literary criticism’s opportunity. Even today, more than seventy years after the publication of the first notable Jungian literary criticism by Maud Bodkin,2 some relevant Jungian concepts remain unapplied to Shakespeare, and some of the existing Jungian studies are neither totally accurate nor sufficiently thorough. There is clearly much more to be said, and this study will not be the last ever published on Shakespeare and Jung.]

Published: Nov 10, 2015

Keywords: Collect Work; Literary Criticism; Conscious Life; Unconscious Material; Conscious Attitude

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