PEP | Article - Psychoanalytic Review. LX, 1973: Infantile Fantasies in Shakespearean Metaphor: I. The Fear of Being Smothered. Alan B. Rothenberg. Pp. 205-222.

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Abstract

Rothenberg quotes from Venus and Adonis, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, and other works to show Shakespeare's involvement with fears of being smothered and eaten by the preoedipal mother. These fears and the defenses against them are expressed in metaphors and images that disguise, distance, and soften them and thereby make them acceptable to the audience.

PEP | Article - Psychoanalytic Review. LX, 1973: Infantile Fantasies in Shakespearean Metaphor: I. The Fear of Being Smothered. Alan B. Rothenberg. Pp. 205-222. - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly