{"id":18863,"date":"2024-04-02T00:44:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/apply-the-theories-in-freuds-totem-and-taboo-to-a-reading-of-shakespeares-hamlet\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T00:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:44:37","slug":"apply-the-theories-in-freuds-totem-and-taboo-to-a-reading-of-shakespeares-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/apply-the-theories-in-freuds-totem-and-taboo-to-a-reading-of-shakespeares-hamlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply the theories in Freud\u2019s Totem and Taboo to a reading of Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apply the theories in Freud\u2019s Totem and Taboo to a reading of Shakespeare\u2019s<br \/>\nHamlet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Only two sources needed are attached. Direct quotes and in-text citations with page numbers are required to illustrate points. Refrain from re-narrating the plot.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Discuss the \u201clonging for the father\u201d evident in the figure of Hamlet. Freud remarked that<br \/>\n\u201cTotemic religion arose from the filial sense of guilt, in an attempt to allay that feeling<br \/>\nand to appease the father by deferred obedience to him\u201d (1168). Is there perhaps a<br \/>\nrepressed crime of patricide at work here? How would this be related to the presence of<br \/>\nthe ghost of Hamlet\u2019s father? Make sure to make use of Freud\u2019s explanation of the<br \/>\ngenesis of ghosts and the related mechanism of projection. What is it that is haunting<br \/>\nHamlet? Responsibility? Vengeance? Guilty conscience?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Freud also speaks of the need to displace hostile feelings toward the father onto a<br \/>\nsubstitute for him. Is this evident in the play? Is there also a repressed desire for the father<br \/>\nto be vulnerable? Are there echoes of Christian themes at work here?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>How does the play displace the incest taboo? Recall that Claudius is Hamlet\u2019s uncle. This<br \/>\nmeans that Claudius killed his own brother and married his sister-in-law. How can one<br \/>\ninterpret Hamlet\u2019s hostility toward his mother in this context? Are there permutations<br \/>\nhere of the oedipal problem?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Please discuss, as well, the function of tragedy here. Remember that, in order for a<br \/>\ntragedy to function, the reader must be able to identify with the protagonist. In literary<br \/>\ntheory, the protagonist is called the \u201chero\u201d, but this does not have the connotation of<br \/>\nheroism, or of heroic acts. The protagonist (hero) is also supposed to have a character<br \/>\nflaw that precipitates his fall. What aspects of the hero is the implied reader supposed to<br \/>\nidentify with? What is Hamlet\u2019s character flaw? What is he ultimately unsuccessful at<br \/>\ndoing? What is subliminally communicated to the reader?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Use the techniques of repetition, displacement, and condensation to aid<br \/>\nin the analyses here.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Remember that we are dealing with metacultural themes here, writ large, that reflect the<br \/>\nhuman condition, and that are to be illuminated from a psychoanalytic perspective. The<br \/>\ntext is thus to be read not as a product of authorial intent, but as a cultural artifact.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>And also, pay attention to the phrases in the text. Analyze them as allusions in the form<br \/>\nof displacements and condensations (and other psychoanalytic mechanisms, as<br \/>\nappropriate). One good example is when Hamlet says, \u201cmore than kin, and less than<br \/>\nkind\u201d. Your analysis should focus on the symbolic details in the text.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply the theories in Freud\u2019s Totem and Taboo to a reading of Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet.&nbsp; Only two sources needed are attached. Direct quotes and in-text citations with page numbers are required to illustrate points. Refrain from re-narrating the plot. Discuss the \u201clonging for the father\u201d evident in the figure of Hamlet. 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