title: Psychological insights in Shakespeare's final play, The Two Noble Kinsmen.
abstract: Shakespeare's final play, The Two Noble Kinsmen, contains profound psychological insights. Like all of Shakespeare's reworkings of old material, the result is not merely a variation on a theme but a psychological statement in and of itself, which respects and revisits the past even as it presents a new and original statement. In this paper I argue that the transformation of the Chaucerian into the Shakespearean has a premonition of the Freudian in it also: Shakespeare not only delivers insights on development and sexuality, he anticipates an important Freudian concept in his introduction of the theme of the jailer's daughter whose "love-sickness" requires on understanding of transference before sense can be made of it!
authors.affiliation: Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, USA.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Mahon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004324:Drama; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D014167:Transference, Psychology