%0 Journal Article
%T Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet: Loewald¡¯s ¡°Present Life¡± and Winnicott¡¯s ¡°Potential Space¡± in Shakespeare¡¯s Play
%A Gavriel Reisner
%J Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
%@ 1941-2460
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0003065119860838
%X This psychoanalytic reading of Hamlet places Shakespeare¡¯s play in the theoretical contexts of Loewald on time and Winnicott on space. For Loewald the subject moves from past to present, in a therapeutic fashion, through the intervention of the analyst, a contemporary object. A redemption of time occurs in the internalized action of thought and dialogue. In Winnicott the redemptive movement is from an internal-subjective to an external-objective way of perceiving. The passage occurs in a transitional space where the presence of another allows the discovery of a world. Hamlet suffers from a ghosted self emptied in submission to the father-ghost. In the temporality of thought and the spatiality of action Hamlet moves toward an ancestral self, filled and stable, through the mediation of Horatio, his friend-counselor-analyst
%K ghosts
%K ancestors
%K father-ghost
%K space
%K time
%K friend as good object
%K ego
%K identification
%K internalization
%K object relations
%K transference
%K transitional space
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003065119860838