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Freud, Sigmund (continued)
230–234, 242; psychoanalysis,
203–204, 243–245; dreams, 212;
nature, 213; The Ego and the Id,
222–224; talking cure, 224–226;
Civilization and Its Discontents, 228;
unity of being, 234–236; compared to
Jesus, Buddha, and Confucius,
236–237; Moses and Mono the ism, 238;
Death Drive, 240–241; and Kant, 242
Frye, Northrop, 35, 77, 80, 90, 206–207
Gautama. See Buddha
Gide, André, 88
Ginsberg, Allen, 199, 207, 215
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 176, 179
Hamlet, 12, 141, 174–175, 180
Hauser, Arnold, 11, 153–154
Hector, 3–4; as hero, 30–31; as father,
32–33, 35; killing of Patroclus, 38–40;
death of, 40–43; burial of, 47; in
Troilius and Cressida, 171–172
Heidegger, Martin, 103
Homer: The Iliad, 2, 21–23, 28, 38, 48,
51; Homeric heroes, 4, 23–24;
critiqued by Plato, 4–5, 123–125, 239;
The Odyssey, 38
Iago: inverse of Othello, 145–146,
14 8 –14 9; p er s p e c t iv i sm , 147;
Shakespeare as Iago fi gure, 151–152.
See also Shakespeare, William:
dramatic characters
James, Henry, Sr., 111
Jesus: compassion, 7–10, 67–68, 72–74,
87–88; and Old Testament tradition,
71–72, 88, 98; Gospels, 75, 86–87;
performing miracles, 75, 77; and
William Blake, 78, 196–198;
forgiveness, 78–79; and children,
81–82, 195–196; and women, 82–83;
and Romans, 83–85; retributive God,
88–92, 94; crucifi xion, 93; and
American Chris tian ity, 255–256.
See also Buddha: Universal Being;
Freud, Sigmund: compared to Jesus,
Buddha, and Confucius
Jonson, Ben, 140
Jung, Carl Gustav, 226–227
Kant, Immanuel, 105, 242
Keats, John: on Shakespeare, 95,
138–139, 152; negative capability, 11,
206–207; Romantic poet, 199, 215;
“Ode to Psyche,” 208
Lacan, Jacques, 60, 242
Lawrence, D. H., 199
Lukacs, Georg, 25
Macbeth: as warrior, 156–157, 161;
masculinity, 158–161; Macbeth, 161;
and nihilism, 163–164. See also
Shakespeare, William: dramatic
characters
Mann, Thomas, 176
Marlowe, Christopher, 140, 176
Marx, Karl, 36, 178, 226–227
Milton, John, 69, 105, 243. See also Blake,
William: Milton
Nietz sche, Friedrich, 9, 23, 28, 49–50,
78; The Birth of Tragedy, 104, 141; The
Genealogy of Morals, 104, 146; and
Schopenhauer, 104–105, 112; and
Kant, 105; The Genealog y of Knowledge,
110; contra Plato, 126; “perspectival”
seeing, 145; and Romanticism,
185 –186. See also Emerson, Ralph
Waldo: thinking as an intellectual
endeavor
Odysseus, 5, 29, 36, 38
Othello: Othello, 141, 151; as hero,
14 4 –145; i nver s e of I ago, 145 –14 6 ,
14 8 –14 9; a nd dou bt , 14 8 –150, 155;
death of, 152–153. See also Shake-
speare, William: dramatic characters
Plato: critique of Homer, 4–5, 123–125,
239; The Republic, 5, 122–124;
philosophic Truth, 5–6, 127, 129; ideal