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To awake, Shakespeare of the night
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 20:29 authored by Nicholas RoyleRoyle's text considers the importance of psychoanalysis in the writings of Cixous and Derrida, in particular in terms of Cixous's description of Freud as ‘the Shakespeare of the Night’. An exploration of what Derrida terms ‘thinking analysis’ in Cixous's writing is pursued via readings of Freud and Popper-Lynkeus, Derrida's ‘To Speculate?—?on Freud’, and telepathic or magical thinking in Shakespeare. It concludes with A Midsummer Night's Dream and with what Royle considers perhaps the most beautiful ‘because’ in Shakespeare.
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0264-8334Publisher
Edinburgh University PressExternal DOI
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2Volume
36Page range
223-239Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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