Hamlet's Absent Father / / Avi Erlich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Erlich, Avi,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1843
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious, for a strong father. Much more than he wants to have killed his father, Hamlet wants his father back and seeks a strong man with whom to identify. The playwright presents one ambivalent father figure after another, each an imitation or parody of the seemingly titanic king. Polonius, Osrick, Yorick, Old Fortinbras, Priam, Achilles, Horatio-these are a few versions ofthe father who bequeathed to his son his own ambivalence.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- ONE. Psychoanalysis as a Critical Method for Hamlet -- TWO. Freud's Misleading Hunch about Hamlet -- THREE. The Problem of Delay -- FOUR. The Absent Father and His Son -- FIVE. The Vain Search for a Strong Father -- SIX. Mother Mistress Man -- SEVEN. To Be or Not To Be Born -- EIGHT. Managing the Unconscious -- NINE. Conclusion -- APPENDIX A. King Hamlet and the Sonneteer's Friend Remembered -- APPENDIX B. Shakespeare's Smiling Villains as Transformed Men -- APPENDIX C. Polonius and John Donne's Busy Old Fool -- Notes -- General Index -- Index of Passages from Hamlet Quoted or Discussed