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'To be or not ...' Lacan and the meaning of being in Shakepeare's Hamlet
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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Matthew SharpeThis chapter provides a reading of Lacan's important reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Seminar VI, in the context of his developing thought on the neuroses, and obsessional neurosis in particular. The article draws atttention to the way Lacan's focus shifts from Hamlet's 'Oedipal' relation towards his uncle towards his inability to fathom teh desire of his mother, Gertrude. This interpretive optic opens up many scenes of the play, and strange transformations in the heor's conduct: his terrible hostility to Ophelia, and his 'rebound' at the moment that he leaps into her open grave, able at last to say 'It is I, Hamlet the Dane!" and undertake to do the task his father's ghost had implored of him.
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The literary Lacan : from literature to lituraterre and beyondChapter number
3Pagination
89 - 116Publisher
Seagull BooksPlace of publication
Calcutta, IndiaISBN-13
9780857420374ISBN-10
0857420372Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2012, Seagull BooksExtent
11Editor/Contributor(s)
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