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Bargains With Fate
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-09
Bargains With Fate written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Bargains With Fate
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-01-15
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Bargains With Fate
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Bargains With Fate written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Social Science categories.
The enduring appeal of Shakespeare's works derives largely from the fact that they contain brilliantly drawn characters. Interpretations of these characters are products of changing modes of thought, and thus past explanations of their behavior, including Shakespeare's, no longer satisfy us. In this work, Bernard J. Paris, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, shows how Shakespeare endowed his tragic heroes with enduring human qualities that have made them relevant to people of later eras. Bargains with Fate employs a psychoanalytic approach inspired by the theories of Karen Horney to analyze Shakespeare's four major tragedies and the personality that can be inferred from all of his works. This compelling study first examines the tragedies as dramas about individuals with conflicts like our own who are in a state of crisis due to the breakdown of their bargains with fate, a belief that they can magically control their destinies by living up to the dictates of their defensive strategies. Filled with bold hypotheses supported by carefully detailed accounts, this innovative study is a resource for students and scholars of Shakespeare, and for those interested in literature as a source of psychological insight. The author's combination of literary and psychoanalytic perspectives guides us to a humane understanding of Shakespeare and his protagonists, and, in turn, to a more profound knowledge of ourselves and human behavior.
Bargains With Fate
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Bargains With Fate written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Characters and characteristics in literature categories.
"The enduring appeal of Shakespeare's works derives largely from the fact that they contain brilliantly drawn characters. Interpretations of these characters are products of changing modes of thought, and thus past explanations of their behavior, including Shakespeare's, no longer satisfy us. In this work, Bernard J. Paris, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, shows how Shakespeare endowed his tragic heroes with enduring human qualities that have made them relevant to people of later eras.Bargains with Fate employs a psychoanalytic approach inspired by the theories of Karen Horney to analyze Shakespeare's four major tragedies and the personality that can be inferred from all of his works. This compelling study first examines the tragedies as dramas about individuals with conflicts like our own who are in a state of crisis due to the breakdown of their bargains with fate, a belief that they can magically control their destinies by living up to the dictates of their defensive strategies.Filled with bold hypotheses supported by carefully detailed accounts, this innovative study is a resource for students and scholars of Shakespeare, and for those interested in literature as a source of psychological insight. The author's combination of literary and psychoanalytic perspectives guides us to a humane understanding of Shakespeare and his protagonists, and, in turn, to a more profound knowledge of ourselves and human behavior."--Provided by publisher.
Relating To God
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Author : Dan Merkur
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Relating To God written by Dan Merkur and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Psychology categories.
In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur conceptualizes religious discourse within psychoanalysis. He proposes that God be treated as a transferential figure whose analysis leads to a reduction of the parental content that is projected onto God. Merkur notes that religious conversion experiences regularly involve theological intuitions that are either rational or, owing to morbid complications, have undergone displacement into irrational symbolism. Analysis renders the religiosity more wholesome. Traditionally, psychoanalytic thought has been dismissive of religion. Freud is on record, however, as having called psychoanalysis a neutral procedure. He argued that religion, with its dependency on a providential God who punishes disobedience, imagines spirituality on the model of human parents and fails to approach spirituality in an appropriately scientific manner. He wrote little of spiritual phenomena, but mentioned both the rationality of the universe and the parapsychological occurrence of thought transference. Occasionally, later psychoanalysts used different language in order to contrast wholesome and morbid forms of religion. Erich Fromm distinguished authoritarian and humanistic religions, while D. W. Winnicott condemned fetishistic behavior while approving of playful illusions that require “belief-in.” These formulations constructed a middle position for clinicians, neither categorically opposed to religion as classical psychoanalysis was, nor do they embrace cultural relativity as “spiritually oriented” psychotherapists are currently advocating. What sorts of spiritual practices does psychoanalysis find unobjectionable? As examples of humanistic religion, Fromm named Zen Buddhism, Buddhist mindfulness meditation, and the via negativa or “way of negating” that some Christian and Jewish mystics have followed. Because the Bible-based approaches are little known, Merkur discusses their histories, procedures, and psychoanalytic understanding.
Imagined Human Beings
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1997-10
Imagined Human Beings written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road.
A General Drama Of Pain
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2012-08-14
A General Drama Of Pain written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy’s three most widely read novels—Tess of the d’Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure—highlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J. Paris shows Hardy’s genius in creating imagined human beings. He demonstrates that while Hardy tends to blame external conditions for his characters’ painful fates, their downfalls are due to a very complex combination of cosmic, social, and psychological factors. Hardy’s characters are usually discussed primarily in thematic terms. The characters are are so richly portrayed, Paris argues, that they can be better understood independent of Hardy’s interpretations, in motivational terms and he utilizes the psychologist Karen Horney’s theories to recover Hardy’s intuitions. The characters are full of inner conflicts that make them difficult to fathom, but the approach Paris employs explains their contradictions and illuminates their troubled relationships—shedding light on these expertly crafted imagined human beings. This psychological approach to Hardy’s characters enables us to understand his characters and gain insight into the implied authors of the works. In addition, the approach shows Hardy’s authorial personality. We can see that Hardy treats some defensive strategies more sympathetically than others. Given his view of life as “a general drama of pain,” resignation, like that of Hardy’s character Elizabeth-Jane, is the strategy he prefers.
A Psychological Approach To Fiction
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
A Psychological Approach To Fiction written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Psychology helps us to talk about what the novelist knows, but fiction helps us to know what the psychologist is talking about." So writes the author of this brilliant study. The chief impulse of realistic fiction is mimetic; novels of psychological realism call by their very nature for psychological analysis. This study uses psychology to analyze important characters and to explore the consciousness of the author and the work as a whole. What is needed for the interpretation of realistic fiction is a psychological theory congruent with the experience portrayed. Emerging from Paris' approach are wholly new and illuminating interpretations of Becky Sharp, William Dobbin, Amelia Sedley, Julien Sorel, Madame de Renal, Mathilde de la Mole, Maggie Tulliver, the underground man, Charley Marlow, and Lord Jim. The psychological approach employed by Paris helps the reader not only to grasp the intricacies of mimetic characterization, but also to make sense of thematic inconsistencies which occur in some of the books under consideration. For students of human behavior as well as students of literature, the great figures of realistic fiction provide a rich source of empathic understanding and psychological insight.
Shakespeare And Psychoanalytic Theory
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Author : Carolyn Brown
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-24
Shakespeare And Psychoanalytic Theory written by Carolyn Brown and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent and prolific field of scholarship, the analytic methods and tools, theories, and critics who apply the theories have not been adequately assessed. This book fills that gap. It surveys the psychoanalytic theorists who have had the most impact on studies of Shakespeare, clearly explaining the fundamental developments and concepts of their theories, providing concise definitions of key terminology, describing the inception and evolution of different schools of psychoanalysis, and discussing the relationship of psychoanalytic theory (especially in Shakespeare) to other critical theories. It chronologically surveys the major critics who have applied psychoanalysis to their readings of Shakespeare, clarifying the theories they are enlisting; charting the inception, evolution, and interaction of their approaches; and highlighting new meanings that have resulted from such readings. It assesses the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to Shakespeare studies and the significance and value of the resulting readings.
Character As A Subversive Force In Shakespeare
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Author : Bernard J. Paris
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1991
Character As A Subversive Force In Shakespeare written by Bernard J. Paris and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Drama categories.
Shakespeare's history and Roman plays are usually discussed in terms of their political themes; their leading characters are imagined human beings who must be understood in motivational terms. Analyzing these characters with the aid of modern psychology (the theories of Karen Horney), this story attempts both to make sense of inconsistencies within the plays and the controversies they have produced.