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E J Mahon

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PubMed2001

Psychological insights in Shakespeare's final play, The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Shakespeare's final play, The Two Noble Kinsmen, contains profound psychological insights. Like all of Shakespeare's reworkings of old material, the result is not merely a variation on a theme but a psychological statement in and of itself, which respects and revisits the past even as it presents a new and original statement. In this paper I argue that the transformation of the Chaucerian into the Shakespearean has a premonition of the Freudian in it also: Shakespeare not only delivers insights on development and sexuality, he anticipates an important Freudian concept in his introduction of the theme of the jailer's daughter whose "love-sickness" requires on understanding of transference before sense can be made of it!

Adult↗
PubMed1992

The function of humor in a four-year-old.

A child's attempt at humor in the midst of a psychoanalytic session is examined. A joke is told that began as a dream which the 4-year-old analysand attempted to modify. The joke is not entirely successful from a formal standpoint. This "failure" is examined from the point of view of the anxiety that may have derailed the joke and the developmental immaturity that may have compromised it. A developmental line of the symbolic process is suggested, double meanings and multiple meanings becoming more complex as development proceeds.

Child, Preschool↗
PubMed1992

Dreams. A developmental and longitudinal perspective.

In young children's dreams the infantile wish appears almost undisguised. Freud used this prototypical expression and representation of the infantile wish in a child's dream to bolster his conviction that the infantile wish was at the genetic root of adults' dreams as well. As development proceeds, a child's dream grows in disguise and complexity. This study of one analysand's dreams at age 5, 13, and 20 addresses the complexity from a longitudinal point of view and attempts to track the infantile wish through all of its developmental vicissitudes and disguises.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

A note on the nature of prejudice.

The psychodynamics of prejudice have been extensively studied and documented. What is less well understood perhaps are the developmental steps that get the process started. This paper argues that to understand prejudice from a developmental point of view, two psychological processes must be understood: (1) the process whereby the mind arrives at its convictions; and (2) group concepts, their uses and abuses.

Attitude↗