Macbeth (Vol. 44) | H. R. Coursen (essay date 1985)
H. R. Coursen (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "A Jungian Approach to Characterization: Macbeth" in Shakespeare's'Rough Magic": Renaissance Essays in Honor of C L. Barber, edited by Peter Erickson and Coppélia Kahn, University of Delaware Press, 1985, pp. 230-44.
[Here, Coursen adopts the analytic psychology of C. G. Jung to explore Shakespeare's characterizations of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. He argues that Jungian theory illuminates the conflict between them by explicating their dominant orientations, the interaction of their conscious and unconscious purposes, and the fixed order of the dramatic world they inhabit.]
At the Shakespeare Association Meeting in San Francisco in 1979, after I had presented a paper on Jungian Approaches to King Lear,1 C. L. Barber asked me, "Why Jung, and not Freud?" This essay is an answer to Joe's question. I have no wish to exclude Freud, and could not even if I wished to. I do wish to...
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