William and William; the birth and death of subjectivity in the works of William Shakespeare and William S. Burroughs
We open with the question of subjectivity as it is presented in Hamlet; the focus then moves to the breakdown of subjectivity as experienced in extreme situations and clinical psychosis. Gabel’s idea of continuity from psychosis to ideology (false consciousness) is used to show that William S. Burro...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Language and Psychoanalysis |
| Online Access: | http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com//article/view/2519 |