THE LONELINESS OF RICHARD III: INDIVIDUALPSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT A CHARACTER OF SHAKESPEARIAN THEATRE

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Abstract

Richard III, in Shakespeare’s fiction, presents impressive features for some individualpsycological considerations. First of all, the real deformity of his body, marked by monstrousness: organic inferiority becomes inferiority feeling, and inferiority complex. Richard thinks about himself as a monster created by disassemblingnature. The will of power of Richard is terrifyng, taking not life, but only death, both in social and in loving life. Richard’s character present an incurable fracture between “symbolic” and “diabolic” functions: he is not a man, but only a diabolic function. Therefore, Richard appears as not able to find any connection with human community, “this breathing world”– as write Shakespeare