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Branagh's Complete Hamlet Endorsed
- The hosts recommend Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet as the definitive filmed version because it is complete and preserves all lines.
- They note Branagh's film uses long takes to let actors inhabit Shakespeare's rhythm and prose.
Hamlet As Repressed Oedipus
- Freud reads Hamlet as a repressed Oedipus where the oedipal desire remains inhibited rather than enacted.
- This frames Hamlet's delay as symptomatic of modern subjectivity's increased repression.
Paralysis From The Other's Desire
- Lacan reframes Hamlet's paralysis around the other's desire, especially Gertrude's, rather than Hamlet's own suppressed oedipal wish.
- Hamlet's inability to act stems from confronting a mother's desire that lacks an absence he can anchor his own desire to.