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and in King Lear (i.
They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay.
But neither Pollitt nor Sullivan nor Lear understands that psychoanalysis has been a means of simplifying the mind by presuming sexual and aggressive motives to be invariably primary and by invoking deterministic "mechanisms" that always lead to a few banal and arbitrary causative factors.
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.
Walcott twins Clare--who was driven mad by social injustice and consoled by the smallest beings in nature--with mad Tom, Edgar's disguise in King Lear , who, like Clare, wanders the English countryside praising frogs and gnats: "I am moved like you, mad Tom, by a line of ants;/ I behold their industry and they are giants."