Hamlet and psychoanalytic experience.
Hamlet draws us into its rendered world, enabling us to experience it with depth, awareness, and resonance, in a mode we recognize as aesthetic. By way of Shakespeare's play--primarily the first act--and a detailed case study, aesthetic and psychoanalytic experience are compared, to suggest that, for our own analytic discourse, we revalue Freud's unease that his case studies read like short stories.
Schwaber
Paul
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Wesleyan University, USA. pschwaber@wesleyan.edu
D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004324:Drama; D004954:Esthetics; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*