Macbeth (Vol. 44) | Kay Stockholder (essay date 1987)
Kay Stockholder (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Macbeth: A Dream of Love," in American Imago, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer, 1987, pp. 85-105.
[In the essay that follows, Stockholder evaluates the dream-like atmosphere of the play and the way in which it represents the relation between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. She examines their love for each other and their unique intimacy in terms of their unconscious desires and the play's association of sexuality with violence.]
Plato in the Republic reflected uneasily that even a good man might dream that he slept with his mother, and Freud tried to reassure the audience to his Introductory Lectures to Psycho-Analysis when he reminded them that there was someone in the real world actually doing the horrible things of which they merely dreamed.1 The combination of the involuntary nature of our dreams and their emotional power can remain a source of worry even though most of us...
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