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The approaches of the literary scholar and the psychoanalyst to the study of imagery need not be mutually exclusive but may constructively supplement one another. The author seeks to illustrate this with a psychoanalytic examination of King Lear aided by reference to Shakespearean authorities. Divers Oedipal themes are elicited but their cursory treatment is disappointing.