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Unpublished Paper
Goddess of Death: The pleasure principle at work in Shakespeare’s texts
(2000)
  • Michele Gibney
Abstract

In the essay “The Theme of the Three Caskets,” Freud discusses man’s altering of a representation of death into one of love. This course of action is reminiscent of Nietzsche’s claim in Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense, where he claims that man invents truth to suit himself. Freud psychoanalyzes that man is altering reality out of a fear of his own mortality, while Nietzsche makes a similar claim by saying man does it out of a desire to live peacefully with others in a manner which preserves life.

Keywords
  • Shakespeare,
  • Hamlet,
  • Freud,
  • Nietzsche
Publication Date
November 6, 2000
Citation Information
Michele Gibney. "Goddess of Death: The pleasure principle at work in Shakespeare’s texts" (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michele_gibney/9/