LEAR AND PROSPERO: FROM THE PROJECTIVE TO THE INTROJECTIVE MODE |
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| Authors: | Bernardine Bishop |
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| Institution: | BERNARDINE BISHOP has a background in academic English, writing and teaching. She is a member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy and is a training therapist and supervisor for this and other institutions. She is also a member of the Lincoln Centre for Psychotherapy. |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT My thesis is that King Lear and The Tempest , seen together, offer a map of the trajectory of psychic process from the projective to the introjective mode. Lear remains psychically unseparate, both from his daughters, who constitute a split maternal object, and from kingship, with which he is in projective identification. The Tempest , six years later, takes up and reworks to their resolution the same themes. Prospero learns to separate from Miranda, forgives his enemies, and relinquishes the rewards that come from narcissistic pseudopotency, in his case afforded by magic powers. |
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