The process by which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth treat their own ambitions as if those drives were arriving from outside themselves.
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externalization
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Bromwich extends the earlier psychological model by arguing that both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth repeatedly displace their own impulses onto something slightly external.
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"Ah, Dante might let you have, I mean, Dante is serious Catholic. Catholic are not against idolatry from objects. I think he might well..."
"more instance of the consistency of this portrayal that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are always putting off onto something slightly external the impulses that..."
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