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I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.