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Hamlet, Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Politics : Irony, Ideology, Authoritarianism, Hysteria, and the Universal Subject.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuels, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- What if Hamlet is not just a timeless tragedy, but a mirror reflecting the fractures of our contemporary world? This work explores how a psychoanalytic reading of Hamlet-through five interlocking frames-can illuminate the psychological, political, and cultural crises of our time.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 "The Play's the Thing": Metafiction, Irony, Centrist Narcissism, and Virtue Signaling
- 3 Thrift, Thrift: Ideology, Capitalism, and Neoliberal Nihilism
- 4 "The Commandment All Alone Shall Live": Conservative Ideology, Authoritarianism, and the Rewriting of History
- 5 "These Words, Like Daggers, Enter in Mine Ears": Hysteria, Symbolic Violence, and the Left
- 6 Modern Democratic Liberalism after Hamlet: Psychoanalysis and the Universal Subject
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216450214
- OCLC:
- 1608642723
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