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Hamlet, Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Politics: Irony, Ideology, Authoritarianism, Hysteria, and the Universal Subject

Hamlet, Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Politics: Irony, Ideology, Authoritarianism, Hysteria, and the Universal Subject

Hardcover

Series: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Conte

General Political ScienceGeneral Psychology

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ISBN13: 9798216450207
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Hamlet: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and the Crisis of Modernity

This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Hamlet through five interwoven frames-ironic, ideological, psycho-social, emotional, and scientific-to reveal how Shakespeare's play speaks directly to today's cultural, political, and psychological dilemmas. Drawing on Freud, Lacan, Hegel, and Marx, the author argues that Hamlet is not only a metaphorical autobiography of Shakespeare but also a profound meditation on virtue signaling, neoliberal capitalism, melancholic subjectivity, and the modern quest for certainty. By combining close textual analysis with psychoanalytic and philosophical theory, this work proposes a new model for reading literature-one that uncovers the unconscious logic of ideology and the enduring relevance of Shakespeare's most enigmatic tragedy.

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