The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytical and Literary Reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King LearDuke University Press, 1998 - 162 sider The King and the Adulteress brings together two essays that propose radically revisionary readings of two of the most important literary works in the Western canon, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Shakespeare's King Lear. In offering a new understanding of a deeply sadomasochistic relationship and of an authoritarian pathology, renowned psychoanalyst Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca combines psychoanalysis with literary studies to challenge the conventional judgments of readers and the stereotyped interpretations of literary critics to these masterpieces. Approaching the characters in Bovary and Lear from both an analytic and a critical viewpoint, Speziale-Bagliacca reinterprets many issues and events that involve archetypal figures of modern literary mythology. In fact, he reverses much of the received opinion about them. Charles Bovary, for example, far from being a victim of his wife's neurotic restlessness or the epitome of a passive imbecile, is a masochist of the highest order who makes a decisive contribution to Emma's miserable end. Lear, rather than a tragedy involving the sweet Cordelia, noble Kent, and the Fool as good and loyal supporters of an old king driven to madness by his overbearing evil daughters, is precisely the opposite. The sympathetic understanding of the reader should go, Speziale-Bagliacca suggests, also to Regan, Goneril, and Edmund, while the king, whose crisis is interpreted in the light of psychoanalytic findings on depression, finally becomes the true unbeloved "bastard" of the play. Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychotherapy at the Medical School of the University of Genoa. He is the author of On the Shoulders of Freud and many other works. |
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... guilt , because she has ambivalent feelings to- ward her husband ? It is worth bearing in mind that Flaubert him- self makes this suggestion on more than one occasion . To give just one example ( to which I shall later return ) : On the ...
... guilt , because she has ambivalent feelings to- ward her husband ? It is worth bearing in mind that Flaubert him- self makes this suggestion on more than one occasion . To give just one example ( to which I shall later return ) : On the ...
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... guilt . Charles does not know how to deal with his terrible sense of guilt and is not even able to realize that it is he who has woven the web of his own nightmare . The only way he can fight his torment is with another omnipotent ...
... guilt . Charles does not know how to deal with his terrible sense of guilt and is not even able to realize that it is he who has woven the web of his own nightmare . The only way he can fight his torment is with another omnipotent ...
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... guilt . Although Lear's anguish reaches its peak during the storm , the result will be equally tragic . He admits his guilt and his insen- sitivity toward Cordelia , but he projects them immediately onto others : " Oh , you are men of ...
... guilt . Although Lear's anguish reaches its peak during the storm , the result will be equally tragic . He admits his guilt and his insen- sitivity toward Cordelia , but he projects them immediately onto others : " Oh , you are men of ...
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A Wholly Fictitious Story | 54 |
An Essay on King Lear | 81 |
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