title: Hamlet and psychoanalytic experience.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Wesleyan University, USA. pschwaber@wesleyan.edu
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schwaber
mesh_terms: 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*