The 'Love Looks not with the Eyes but with the Mind': Shakespeare's Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation (New ed)

I will discuss and utilise the Jungian concept of individuation, and the Lacanian concept of desire, as well as language from the lexicon of the fifteenth and sixteenth century alchemists to develop an understanding of how the intimately psychological nature of the production of art is being demonstrated by Shakespeare in his poems.