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Second Chances - Shakespeare & Freud (Hardcover)
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Second Chances - Shakespeare & Freud (Hardcover)
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A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen
through Shakespeare and Freud
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips
explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the
literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we
try to reproduce it again and again. Innumerable stories, from the
Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from Oedipus Rex to Hamlet,
explore the realization or failure of second chances―outcomes that
depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us
repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the
joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain
that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone.
Through a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how
Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was
its supreme interpreter. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we
can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation, of momentous
shifts, constrained by time and place but often still possible. Ranging
from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter’s Tale, and from D. W.
Winnicott to Marcel Proust, the authors challenge readers to imagine
how, as Phillips writes, “it is the mending that matters.”
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