Abstract

Why are the women Shakespeare created so perplexing? Why do children fear witches in fairy tales? Holbrook (literature, Cambridge U.), drawing upon object relations, Jungian, and existential psychology, shows how recent insights from psychoanalysis reveal much about the unconscious (male) fear of women and how this fear is personified in universal images. Sensitive and jargon-free, but uninformed in the perspectives offered by contemporary feminist psychoanalytic theory. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.