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Ophelia. Will a' tell us what this show meant?
Hamlet. Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be not you ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.
The following bibliography comprises those literary and clinical studies of Shakespeare and his works which may be termed psychological, psychiatric, or psychoanalytic, and which have been published between the years 1964 and 1975. I have taken 1964 as my starting point because Norman Holland's Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (item 129 in bibliography below) the book which thoroughly and superbly reviews all previous psychological writing on Shakespeare, beginning with Freud, is complete up to that year. Any reader interested in checking pre-1964 psychological studies of Shakespeare can do so easily with Holland's book. Readers can also see the recent bibliography published in the International Review of Psycho-Analysis it, Vol. 1 (1974), compiled by Bette Greenberg & Albert Rothenberg, which confines itself only to 'medico -psychological' studies, and which cites writings before Freud.
Not only psychoanalysts write psychoanalytic criticism, and many items in the following list are by literary critics and not therapists or clinicians. I have spread the nets of psychology wide enough to include any study of Shakespeare and his art which focuses on such issues as identity, family, sexuality, irrationality, creativity, narcissism, dreams, ambivalence and anxiety, and which either uses the terms and techniques of psychological theory, or employs interpretive strategies which rely implicitly on knowledge of such theory. Behavioural, psychiatric, Jungian and existential essays accompany Freudian and post-Freudian studies in the bibliography (the latter are more numerous). Because psychoanalytic literary criticism has gradually found its place in the Shakespeare industry, many literary critics (with varying degrees of psychoanalytic knowledge) have begun either to use or to acknowledge the theories and te