Hamlet and NarcissusUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 246 pagini "Since Ernest Jones published Hamlet and Oedipus in 1949, psychoanalytic thinking has changed profoundly. This change, however, has not yet been adequately reflected in Shakespeare scholarship. In Hamlet and Narcissus, John Russell confronts the paradigm shift that has occurred in psychoanalysis and takes steps to formulate a critical instrument based on current psychoanalytic thinking. In his introduction, Russell clarifies Freud's assumptions concerning human motivation and development and then discusses, as representative of the new psychoanalytic paradigm, Margaret Mahler's theory of infant development and Heinz Kohut's theory of narcissism. Using these theories as his conceptual framework, Russell proceeds to analyze the action of Hamlet, focusing on the play's central problem, Hamlet's delay." "Previous psychoanalytic approaches to Hamlet have failed convincingly to explain the cause of Hamlet's delay because they failed to recognize the profound connection between Hamlet's pre-Oedipal attachment to his mother and his post-Oedipal allegiance to his father. By placing Hamlet's conflict with his parents in the new psychoanalytic framework of narcissism, Russell is able to show that Hamlet's post-Oedipal allegiance to his father and his pre-Oedipal attachment to his mother are driven by the same archaic and illusory needs. Though on the surface seeming to contradict one another, at bottom Hamlet's two attachments, to mother and to father, complement one another and work together to produce in Hamlet a conflicted ambivalence that propels him to his self-induced destruction. By clarifying the origin and effects of Hamlet's archaic narcissism, Russell is able to solve the problem of Hamlet's delay and forge a new and fruitful instrument of literary criticism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... environment can easily be construed according to the concept of evolutionary adaptation , an interpretation first put forward ... environment an appropriately life - enhancing answer . Infant and environment must behaviorally 24 INTRODUCTION.
... environment can easily be construed according to the concept of evolutionary adaptation , an interpretation first put forward ... environment an appropriately life - enhancing answer . Infant and environment must behaviorally 24 INTRODUCTION.
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... environment , the ordinary devoted mother — is innately connected to drive , to the physical and psychic needs of the infant . This reciprocal and primary interaction between infant and mater- nal environment is the means by which the ...
... environment , the ordinary devoted mother — is innately connected to drive , to the physical and psychic needs of the infant . This reciprocal and primary interaction between infant and mater- nal environment is the means by which the ...
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... environment , Stern adduces evidence to the contrary , demonstrating persuasively that even at birth the infant's perceptual capacit ies are operative , in a rudimentary way to be sure , but nonetheless engaging the infant actively with ...
... environment , Stern adduces evidence to the contrary , demonstrating persuasively that even at birth the infant's perceptual capacit ies are operative , in a rudimentary way to be sure , but nonetheless engaging the infant actively with ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Hamlets Fractured World | 39 |
The Failure of the Father | 83 |
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