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Tell My Story: Freud, Hamlet, and the Burdens of Self-Authorship
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 52, Number 4, December 2019
- pp. 21-36
- 10.1353/mos.2019.0036
- Article
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Abstract:
Aiming to put Freud's writings in dialogue with Shakespeare's Hamlet, this essay considers the burden of speaking for oneself as the burden of what it means to call oneself into being against the precedence—the authority and priority—of another.