Ellen Pinsky on Psychoanalytic “Love Juice”

Remember Bottom, the ass who begins to believe he is handsome when  intoxicated Queen Titania treats him  handsomely?  Yes, the Bottom of   Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Ellen Pinsky directs us to Shakespeare to think about the too abstract phrase, erotic transference, an experience more toxic than the words grasp, what Freud referred to as combustible.

Let’s listen to what she conjures us.  Then, click the link at the end of the article to read more in Threepenny Review.

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Psychoanalysis by Ellen Pinsky