Questions that Arise from Lacan’s Reading of Hamlet
摘要
Did Lacan live up to his own criteria about how to read poetic works? Recall what he said when he critiqued analysts for simply trying to find confirmation for their own pre-existing concepts in works of art: “poetic creations generate psychological creations more than they reflect them.” In other words, they give us something new. Did he find something new in Hamlet, or simply apply his existing categories to it?