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The Winter’s Tale: latent homosexuality and paranoia
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Bergmann, Martin S. Green, André |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Othello was written in 1604 and The Winter's Tale in 1610–1611. Both plays have paranoia as their central theme. The Winter's Tale, King Lear and The Tempest all deal with the father-daughter relationship. The invitation to stay even longer must have intensified the homosexual desire. To dilute this desire Leontes asks his wife to participate but when the guest yields to his wife rather than to his own invitation the hitherto latent paranoia is confirmed in Leontes' mind. The latent homosexual relationship between Leontes and Polixenes took a paranoid turn, with disastrous results. The death of Leontes' and Hermione's' son, Mamillius, which cured Leontes' paranoia, could represent the impact of Hamnet's death on William Shakespeare's homosexuality and paranoid tendencies. From clinical experience the readers know that paranoia is all based on a kernel of truth that undergoes a quantitative change in the mind of the paranoid individual. Book Name: The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2018-0-78829-8&isbn=9780429483608&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 227 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 215 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429483608-15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays Psychoanalysis Psychology Homosexuality Winter Latent Paranoia Invitation Paranoid Leontes |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
