Notes on Ibsen's Peer Gynt

A short account of the verse drama Peer Gynt is given, showing its setting in Ibsen's life and work, and its content. The paper relates what the poem tells us about Ibsen to what I know of him from elsewhere, specifically to certain conflicts and the search for his "true self." It also relates the poem to the experience of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists (illustrating this with clinical material), and finally, to aspects of the world today.