著者

児玉 久雄

出版者

サイコアナリティカル英文学会

雑誌

サイコアナリティカル英文学論叢 (ISSN:03866009)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1996, no.17, pp.32-43, 1996 (Released:2011-03-11)

参考文献数

14

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This article deals with the trend in modern productions of Othello to characterize Iago either dominated by Eros (including homosexuality) or by the will to power (and its reversal, the inferiority complex). In this contrast between Eros and powerdrive, we are able to discern an echo of the discrepancy between the Freudian theory of a prevalent sexual-drive and Alfred Adler's power principle, that caused the breach of the latter from the Freudian school. The author argues that this collision which occurred in 1911 was more than a schism within the circle of depth-psychology. Sexual impulse, power-drive and the subconscious form a triangular set of very important fundamentals that have determined the main currents of modern thought. We can locate Freudianism on the line between Eros and the subconscious, and place feminism between Eros and power, and "ideology"between power and the subconscious, respectively. This article also applies Jungian psychology to this topic. Instead of construing Iago to be the representation of Othello's "shadow -side", a way of interpretation much used by Jungian critics, Othello is better understood as the representation of Iago's shadow image, and not vice versa. Iago represents the malignant aspect of "Yin'' (the opposite of "Yang"), a plurality Jung adopted from classical Asian thought.