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Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two. Hamlet can be read almost as a psychoanalytic case study and be used to understand and illustrate a range of core psychoanalytic concepts. Covering such basic psychoanalytic concepts as identity, transference and countertransference, the ‘good-enough’ mother, the compulsion to repeat and the death instinct, James E. Groves shows how Hamlet can shed new light on understanding psychoanalytic theory, and how psychoanalysis can in turn enrich our understanding of Shakespeare’s work. Perhaps the most radical feature of psychoanalysis is its tradition of self-examination. Mirroring it, the book throughout uses an eclectic, subjective critical approach to study how the poetry of Hamlet creates its realistically flawed and believably complex characters. Combining deep, insightful knowledge of Shakespeare and of psychoanalysis, Hamlet on the Couch will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as literary scholars.

Start your personal museum at home with Relics: A Bizarre History of the World Told in 201 Rare Fragments – from Ancient Rome to Dracula’s Home. Starting with a fragment of an asteroid that’s literally older than our earth itself, and ending with the latest technology, this is a history of the world as you’ve never seen it before. The Mini Museum project searches out strange and wonderful pieces of history and presents them in tiny little museums that you can own in your own home. In this book, they tell the tales of how they came upon, say, a truckload of triceratops skulls, a chunk of the Berlin Wall, one of Steve Jobs’s trademark turtlenecks, or a tile from the Space Shuttle. More than that, it shows how these artifacts have shaped our world, and how billions of years of history can be found in around us. Every item is photographed and presented in detail, with historical data, unexpected facts, and sometimes wild tales of adventure.