Collection(s) : Psykhé
Paru le 17/02/2021 | Broché 47 pages
Public motivé
Shakespeare's Hamlet (1600-1601) inspired innovative psychological and psychoanalytic studies during the XXth century, related to the Oedipus Complex and the theme of desire (S. Freud, J. Lacan).
Hamlet, with his unique ability to speculate and incapacity to make decisions, became the emblem of existential restlessness and inner conflict that precedes choice ; as a dark and gloomy soul, his melancholy had a very strong appeal in studies of the formation of identity and melancholy-depression seen as the outcome of expulsion from a symbolic order.
Hamlet was also read as the tragedy that foreshadows the notion of moral conscience (Act III) widely investigated and theorized in the XXth century in the context of studies between consciousness and societies developed in the fields of neurobiology and ethics.
The themes of negative emotions (sadness, hatred, melancholy) present in Hamiet's tragedy - the aspects of desire and psychoanalytic change to which Hamlet's melancholy personality made a considerable contribution - are first introduced, and then analysed in more depth through some works of S. Freud (Mourning and Melancholy, 1917) and J. Lacan (Seminary VI. Desire and its Interpretation, 1958-1959).
Emanuela Burini has a PhD in Euro-American Literature from the University of Bergamo and currently teaches at the « Lorenzo Lotto » Secondary School in Trescore Balneario (Bg). As an independent researcher, she combines teaching with the passion for North American History, researching in the field of Native American Studies and Travel Literature. She is the author of Terre indiane. Giacomo Costantino Beltrami nel Nuovo Monde (1823-1830), Ombre Corte, 2019 ; Carlo Cattaneo. L'uomo, l'artista, il teatro, Sestante, 2014 ; La Bibbia di Borso d'Este. Storia di un prezioso manoscritto, Sestante, 2013. She has worked in the area of disability for over twenty years, developing tailored teaching methods and strategies of inclusion for special needs students.
