Women Characters as the Manifestation of the ‘OTHER’ of Macbeth:

A Psychological Reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Abstract

In modern times, the term ‘archetype’ has been used to refer to fundamental structures in human’s psyche which can be applied to the dynamic structures of the unconscious that determine individual patterns of experience and behavior. A psychoanalytic reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth arrives at a central or nuclear fantasy in which all the separate elements of the text play a role. The greatest of the universal archetypal theme ‘anima and animus’ embodied in the character of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is unveiled. It brings us to the specific dimension of Lacanian ‘Other’ the invisible order that structures Macbeth’s experience of reality in this paper which changes the very basic mode of how we relate to reality.