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