Hamlet at the Nunnery. Psychoanalytical Readings...
Hamlet at the Nunnery. Psychoanalytical Readings...

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper, one aims to return, from a psychoanalytical perspective, to several problematic excerpts from Hamlet. This while keeping in mind the second part of the first scene, Act III, where there are premises for identifying a concept of great importance in psychoanalysis, for both Freud and Lacan: the repetition. Is this key of reading relevant, from the point of view of theatrical practices’ analysis? Does it give one a more thorough understanding of an enigmatic scene and of certain characters – Hamlet and Ophelia –, who still prove themselves as inexhaustible, even after the hundreds of depictions they had? At the end, this study also acknowledges and interprets a series of directorial approaches (Olivier, Zeffirelli, Tocilescu) of the previously mention sequence.

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