psychoanalysis and literature

"Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature--chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age--a . . . psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction"--Provided by publisher.

The author, a psychoanalyst, examines characters in William Shakespeare's plays from a psychoanalytic perspective, exploring the unconscious motivations of such figures as Hamlet, King Lear, Hotspur, Prince Hal, Beatrice, and Romeo.