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From: Sherry Ewing
Date: 11/19/97
Time: 9:46:47 PM
Remote Name: 129.128.230.164
Kris, Ernst. "Prince Hal’s Conflict." 387-406 in M. D. Faber _The Design Within: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Shakespeare_ New York: Science House, 1970.
Kris maintains that Hal uses Falstaff as a substitute father because he is unable to identify with his own father. Hal temporarily returns to his own father by killing Hotspur, but unable to fully reconcile the conflict between them, he returns to Falstaff In Part Two. At the end of Part Two Hal rejects Falstaff because in his unconscious mind the two (Falstaff and Bolingbroke) has been associated with each other. Hal’s conflict is resolved only when he leads his men against the French and finds his heroic side.
Plays mentioned: _I Henry IV_, II Henry IV_