Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in HamletJacques LacanFreud of France19011981Jacques LacanFrench psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophyIn 1920, on being rejected as too thin for military service, he entered medical school and, in 1926, specialised in psychiatry at the Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris. Major conceptsReturn to Freudemphasizes a renewed attention to the original texts of FreudMirror stagethe formation of the Ego via the process of objectification, the Ego being the result of a conflict between ones perceived visual appearance and ones emotional experience.HamletTragedy of DesireWhy Hamlet couldnt take revenge?Mother-DesireHer desire manifest Hamlet Her desire-instinctive voracityHamlet-dependence with respect to the desire of his mothereminent, idealized,exalted object-fatherdegraded, despicable object-ClaudiusClaudius-TimeHamlet(DO)-at the hour of the otherIt is not the hour of the other- not time for Claudius to render his audit to heaven(p237) the hour of his parents-stay the hour of the Others-suspends his crimeOpheliainnermost elementsessential pivot(最内在的要素；在哈姆雷特走向死亡的路上起到了一个必要的支点的作用）OpheliaHamletHamletFirst runs into-First runs into-objectobjectbreeder breeder of of sinnerssinnersdeaddead-loss -loss of the of the objectobjectOpheliaFate-own behaviourlacks: never set a goal doesnt know what he wantsthesituationofthearmy;thestateofthesoldiersashamed-Hamletsmeditationontheobjectofhumanbeings（function of the object of desire）Mourning-the constitution of the object of desireOphelia diedobject of Hamlet again(an impossible objectobject of desire once more）sets everything up-object of desirehis desire:signifier of impossibilityMourningincorporation(归化）the identification（身份认同）Ophelias grave-Hamlets crazydisappearanceoftheobject;destructionofthephallus-holePhallophany（菲勒斯现形）The body is with the kingBut the king is not with the bodythe body is with the phallusBut the phallus is not with the bodyof nothingThank You!