The Hamlet Doctrine · Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing by Critchley, Simon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction

Praised Be Rashness The Gap Between Thought and Action The Mouse-trap Let Be Bunghole The Gorgiastic Paradox of Theater Ass, Ho, Hum It Nothing Must

Part I

By Indirections Find Directions Out— Carl Schmitt’s Hamletization This Globe of Spies He Is Not a Nice Guy— Hamlet as Prince and Political Threat Is Hamlet a Tragedy or a Trauerspiel? The Mute Rock of Reality Walter Benjamin’s Slothful, Pensive Melancholy Is Hamlet a Christian Tragedy? Do It, England Germany Is Hamlet, and Hamlet Is Germany A Fault to Heaven Unbearable Contingency—Hegel’s Hamlet Hegel Likes a Happy Ending Hamlet Is a Lost Man

Part II

Hamletizing Psychoanalysis Rebecca, Take Off Your Gown—Freud and Fliess I Have Bad Dreams Psychoanalysts Eat Their Young Get Thee to a Nunnery Hamlet’s Mourning and Melancholia A Happiness That Often Madness Hits On At Every Moment Absolutely Stupefied— Lacan Bites the Carpet That Is Laertes, This Is Hamlet The Image of My Cause I See— Hamlet and the Mirror Ophelia, or the Sexual Life of Plants The Moneying of Love Thou Common Whore and Visible God Gertrude, a Gaping Cunt Mother, Mother, Mother Step Between Her and Her Fighting Soul Who Calls on Hamlet?

Part III

Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche Spectatorial Distance Lethargy and Disgust Who Asked You to Swallow Men Like Oysters, Prince Hamlet? Through the Ghost of the Unquiet Father, the Image of the Unliving Son Looks Forth I Want to Be a Woman Absolutely- Too- Much

Conclusion

O, O, O, O. Dies I Will Gain Nothing but My Shame The Most Monstrous Contradiction of Love

Notes Bibliography Index