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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... reader may decide for himself when to read them ( or whether to read them at all ) . I would like to remind the reader that psychoanalysis proceeds inward , from the detail that exists on the outer edge toward the center , and from the ...
... reader may decide for himself when to read them ( or whether to read them at all ) . I would like to remind the reader that psychoanalysis proceeds inward , from the detail that exists on the outer edge toward the center , and from the ...
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... reader . Genette would add more sim- ply that Flaubert is here regulating information by choosing a restrictive point of view.12 Flaubert would have us believe that Charles does not under- stand what is going on right under his nose ...
... reader . Genette would add more sim- ply that Flaubert is here regulating information by choosing a restrictive point of view.12 Flaubert would have us believe that Charles does not under- stand what is going on right under his nose ...
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... reader needs to pay particular attention to the passage in which , with the surgical realism familiar to his most avid readers , Flaubert seems to suggest certainty rather than vague doubt - the certainty that Charles treats his guinea ...
... reader needs to pay particular attention to the passage in which , with the surgical realism familiar to his most avid readers , Flaubert seems to suggest certainty rather than vague doubt - the certainty that Charles treats his guinea ...
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A Wholly Fictitious Story | 54 |
An Essay on King Lear | 81 |
The Barbarous Scythian | 106 |
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