A Trial of Faith: Horatio's Story - Hamlet in Analysis

Synopsis:

An exploration of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the form a novel tracing the course of a Kleinian analysis. The narrator and analyst is Horatio , whom Hamlet in the play asks to 'tell his story'. 184 pages.

Description:

A Trial of Faith is an exploration of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the form of a novel tracing the course of a Kleinian analysis. The narrator and analyst is Horatio, whom Hamlet in the play asks to "tell his story". The story has been supervised from the psychoanalytic point of view by Donald Meltzer, to be faithful to the psychoanalytic process as well as to the aesthetic implications of Shakespeare's play.

About the author: Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education. She has written and lectured extensively in this country and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature, and teaches at the Tavistock Centre in London, and the University of Surrey. She is Married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey.

Notes about the author(s):

Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education. She has written and lectured extensively in the UK and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature, and teaches at the Tavistock Centre in London, and the University of Surrey. She is married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey.