PART I - SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, SELFHOOD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Summary
Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.
D. W. Winnicott, ‘The Concept of the False Self’ (1964), Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst (Harmondsworth, 1986), 65.And to what is one summoned? To one's own self.
Heidegger, Being and Time (1927), trans. J. Stambaugh (Albany, 1996), 252.- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Shakespeare's Individualism , pp. 43 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010