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Psychoanalysis & Narrative

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Is Hamlet a Hysteric or an Obsessive?

In psychoanalysis and in narrative, object of desire is not the same as abjaya. I think for us, it's clearly just a master signifier. People get so bogged down in the psychic structure of the care and what the character is going through within the narrative. They don't see the whole point as how we're relating as audience to the narrative. And just to put a bow on the previous point, you, you have to say yes to a text, even if later you're going to say no. You say no from the beginning.

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