The Personality of Shakespeare: A Venture in Psychological MethodYale University Press, 1953 - 243 pages First of all, as the title indicates, I am concerned with exploring a method. This method derives from the theory of personality projection. It is quantitative in part, but its operation depends, as everything in science does, upon a human observer and assessor. With regard to the personality of Shakespeare, I should like to make it plain that I have not attempted to be comprehensive and final. I do not see how we can be comprehensive and final with regard to any personality. Here, in studying Shakespeare, I have been deliberately fragmentary, limiting myself to a mere handful of questions. In particular, I have not tried to analyze the plays as artistic wholes in their entire complexity, but have only traced out a few general characteristics and a few patterns, which I have called "themes," occurring in more than one play. My analysis has focused on the dramatis personae and their interrelations. - Preface. |
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... object to be introjected , and she supposes that the quality of this object as introjected - whether it is primarily satisfying or frustrat- ing - has much to do with the future development of the individual . At a later stage the baby ...
... object to be introjected , and she supposes that the quality of this object as introjected - whether it is primarily satisfying or frustrat- ing - has much to do with the future development of the individual . At a later stage the baby ...
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... objects , from which it follows that they must be capable of interaction . Putting aside the question of the baby's untutored , primitive reactions to his first object , the breast , it must be apparent that many of the interactions ...
... objects , from which it follows that they must be capable of interaction . Putting aside the question of the baby's untutored , primitive reactions to his first object , the breast , it must be apparent that many of the interactions ...
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... object does not forget the self , however ; the object cannot have any value ex- cept in the presence of the conscious self , whether that self is self- ignored or not . ) If we conclude , then , by admitting that Antonio in this case ...
... object does not forget the self , however ; the object cannot have any value ex- cept in the presence of the conscious self , whether that self is self- ignored or not . ) If we conclude , then , by admitting that Antonio in this case ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
On Some Questions of Theory and Method | 15 |
AWEW Alls Well That Ends Well | 42 |
Copyright | |
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