Shakespeare for the Intelligence Agent
Toward Understanding Real Personalities
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2016
186 pages
978-1-4422-5678-1 (ISBN)
Description
What if you found yourself working for an intelligence agency and suddenly your understanding of other human beings had become a matter of life or death? Yair Neuman draws us into a unique thought experiment, using portraits from some of Shakespeare's most stirring works to illustrate how our psychological understanding of human nature can be significantly enriched through literature. Provocative and engaging, Shakespeare for the Intelligence Agent: Toward Understanding Real Personalities invites you to a challenging, enjoyable, and in many cases humorous reading of human personality through Shakespeare's plays.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
1 Table
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-5678-1 (9781442256781)
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Person
Yair Neuman, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He is the author of Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology, and his work has been published extensively in leading journals for various disciplines including psychology, psychoanalysis, and information sciences.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I what should the intelligence agent learn about personality?
- Chapter One On Baboons, Masks, and Character
- All The World's A Stage?
- Chapter Two Dr. Bach's Flower Remedies and the Complexity of Personality
- What are mental constructs?
- Chapter Three We Have Never Been Too Modern: The Cognitive-Biological ...
- Types of threat
- Sperm competition and the poor American soldiers
- From threat to trust
- On cry and trust
- Street cons know about trust
- Trust violation
- On the asymmetry of trust and distrust
- Discussion
- Chapter Four We Have Always Been Too Modern: How to Weave Together the Biological and ...
- Note
- Part II Shakespeare for the intelligence agent
- Chapter Five Julius Caesar: On Trust and Reason
- Whenever there is doubt . . .
- Brutus, Brutus lama sabachthani
- On gentlemen and the threat to status
- On Brutus, the moralist, and the way he has been seduced
- On the couch: Cassius, the psychoanalyst, meets Brutus, the patient
- On seduction, elephants, and human beings
- But Caesar is not a stupid general
- No fear! Caesar and courage
- Postmortem
- Discussion: What have we learned about personality from Julius Caesar?
- Note
- Chapter Six King Lear: On Flattery, Grooming, and Treason
- "And your large speeches may your deeds approve"
- The Fool as the remover of masks
- The madness of King Lear
- Discussion
- Chapter Seven Othello: On Sperm Competition and the Paranoid General
- "Lift your eyes on high": What is the difference between "what" and "who" you are?
- "The Twenty-.Seventh Man"
- "I never found a man that knew how to love himself"
- Into the trap
- Discussion
- Note
- Chapter Eight Macbeth: Personalities as Formed in between People
- Here comes Lady Macbeth
- Discussion
- Chapter Nine The Merchant of Venice: On the Importance of Substitutes
- Discussion
- References
- Index
- About the Author
