Includes bibliographical references, filmography (page 211), and index.
Contents:
Prologue -- Who's there? : a question of identity -- The ghost's commandment : revenge my shame -- Freud's "family romances" : power and belonging -- "Some vicious mole of nature" : bad--or just unlucky? -- Mad for thy love : infected by the social emotions -- Rossencraft & Gilderstone : destiny's happy dupes -- The fair Ophelia : truth or transference? -- "Wild and whirling words" : Freud's phobia, Dora's dream -- To be or not to be? : conscience and the false self -- Hamlet writes The mousetrap : method acting and metatheater -- The double soliloquy : Freud's "compulsion to repeat" -- A mirror in the queen's closet : the good enough mother -- The prince and his brothers : war, murder, and manhood -- "Readiness is all. Let be." : disillusion and the strength to bear it -- The final curtain : the ghost and the death instinct.
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