HAMLET: CLUES OF AUTHENTICATION
Journal Title: Revista de Psihologie - Year 2019, Vol 65, Issue 1
Abstract
One of the many interpretation themes of this play of William Shakespeare is the nature of the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, along with the nature of the message it brings forth. If we put aside the psychiatric criterion, which limits our reflection because it is reductive, we have several directions in which we can explore the authenticity of the Ghost versus its quality of symptom. A more fertile direction for the psychoanalytic thinking of the play may be to consider the Ghost as “title” character of the tragedy, along with its message. Both are perceived by Hamlet according to the reality principle, but not by Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, who ignores them not because she is more in touch with reality, but on the contrary, because she “negatively hallucinates” through denial, just as she denies Hamlet’s need for mourning, as well as the reality of the time factor needed for mourning. This perspective adds coherence and consistency to the interpretation, elements pertaining to the psychic truth. At the same time, it takes into account the process nature of authentication in psychoanalysis, which makes the “play within a play” in Hamlet one more proof of truth for Hamlet.
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