@article{Shakespeare's:2688,
      recid = {2688},
      author = {Jeffery, Benjamin},
      title = {An Image on Water: A Reading of Shakespeare's The Tempest},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2020-08},
      pages = {217},
      abstract = {The topic of this dissertation is a problem of  philosophical psychology and its relation to Shakespeare’s  The Tempest. The problem concerns a capacity of the human  subject to fall into a disordered relationship to the world  in general: a misalignment of inside and outside in which  the individual no longer experiences themselves as “part  of” the world the same way as they had previously. In the  wake of a traumatic loss, for example, a person might find  herself psychologically “uncoupled” from external reality  in a manner that had not been true prior to the event. This  form of trouble can be called a crisis of integration. I  begin by laying out a theory of mind based largely on the  work of the psychoanalytic thinker Hans Loewald that  provides a framework for conceptualising this difficulty,  and I argue that within Shakespeare's work Hamlet and The  Tempest can be fruitfully read as two contrasting  treatments of the theme. One of the features that  distinguishes The Tempest, however, is that the play takes  a more holistic approach to the representation of this  problem, by which I mean that, beyond the psychology  depicted in its various characters, some of the basic  components of the play's design (such as the island  setting, the confounding first scene, the presence of  magic, and the division between two locations) together  produce a deeper and more imagistic mode of thought about  this phenomenon. An important unity within The Tempest is  thereby revealed.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2688},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2688},
}