ABSTRACT
Trust faces its equivocal trajectory in its subtle and somewhat sublime presence in psychoanalysis. Developing psychic representations of the early mother-child inter actions, Margaret Mahler, Pine & Bergman explain "trust" through her theory of separation-individuation. Trust and mistrust have always been and remain powerful factors for conflict and resolution across literary genres, be it drama or fiction or the epic form. The beauty and inexhaustibility of the Shakespearean canon makes it imperative that one visits his works from time to time through evolving epistemological frameworks to unlock the value of his literary accruements. In a growing mercantile economy, Shakespeare weaves a play around the very idea of trust and mistrust, both of which are factored in the aspects of bonds, treaties, and contracts. In Shakespearean terms, the phantom of Caesar is the spectre of his apparent inscrutability, the paradox of immortality, the affective lure of mistrust and corporal fatality.
