Table of Contents

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*ONE. Psychoanalysis as a Critical Method for Hamlet, pg. 1*TWO. Freud's Misleading Hunch about Hamlet, pg. 19*THREE. The Problem of Delay, pg. 43*FOUR. The Absent Father and His Son, pg. 51*FIVE. The Vain Search for a Strong Father, pg. 99*SIX. Mother Mistress Man, pg. 152*SEVEN. To Be or Not To Be Born, pg. 178*EIGHT. Managing the Unconscious, pg. 207*NINE. Conclusion, pg. 260*APPENDIX A. King Hamlet and the Sonneteer's Friend Remembered, pg. 275*APPENDIX B. Shakespeare's Smiling Villains as Transformed Men, pg. 280*APPENDIX C. Polonius and John Donne's Busy Old Fool, pg. 287*Notes, pg. 291*General Index, pg. 301*Index of Passages from Hamlet Quoted or Discussed, pg. 307