Citation

Schwaber P. J. Am. Psychoanal. Assoc. 2007; 55(2): 388-406.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17601097

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.

Language: en

Keywords

Adult; Depressive Disorder; Drama; Esthetics; Freudian Theory; Humans; Male; Medicine in Literature; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Suicide