{"product_id":"second-chances-shakespeare-and-freud-hardcover","title":"Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from \u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, explore the realization or failure of second chances--outcomes that depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation, of momentous shifts, constrained by time and place but often still possible. Ranging from \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, and from D. W. Winnicott to Marcel Proust, the authors challenge readers to imagine how, as Phillips writes, \"it is the mending that matters.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His numerous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He is also the general editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, MA. \u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e, a psychoanalyst and essayist, is visiting professor of English at the University of York. He is general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud and the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eOn Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMissing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBecoming Freud\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748917608736,"sku":"9780300276367","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ffcf732c272b14d4c0f32a6c0e0e8272.webp?v=1779920019","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/second-chances-shakespeare-and-freud-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}