Freud’s Reading of Macbeth: Childlessness, Guilt, and Gender
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This essay investigates how closely connected the theme of childlessness is to the forces of conscience or guilt regarding child-parent relations both in Freud’s essay, “Some-Character-Types”, and in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Second, it interrogates the link between guilt and crime apparent in the figure of Macbeth, with Freud’s elaboration of the pre-existence of guilt before the misdeed, which provided the theoretical foundation of “Criminals from a Sense of Guilt.” Third, it contends that Freud’s first reading exposes the misinterpretation of Lady Macbeth by containing the source of her transformation within such feminine roles as childbirth and childrearing. This essay maintains that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as two fragmented subjects of a single psychical individuality, in fact, complement each other throughout the play, which they do by taking the place of the other sex through reciprocal inheritance of desire, guilt, and anxiety.
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This essay investigates how closely connected the theme of childlessness is to the forces of conscience or guilt regarding child-parent relations both in Freud’s essay, “Some-Character-Types”, and in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Second, it interrogates the link between guilt and crime apparent in the figure of Macbeth, with Freud’s elaboration of the pre-existence of guilt before the misdeed, which provided the theoretical foundation of “Criminals from a Sense of Guilt.” Third, it contends that Freud’s first reading exposes the misinterpretation of Lady Macbeth by containing the source of her transformation within such feminine roles as childbirth and childrearing. This essay maintains that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as two fragmented subjects of a single psychical individuality, in fact, complement each other throughout the play, which they do by taking the place of the other sex through reciprocal inheritance of desire, guilt, and anxiety.
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