In previous note, we saw that Shakespeare's text includes a series of expressions around the idea that Ophelia's father treats his daughter like a fish to sell in the first seducer came. What is supposed to mean that women prostitute their benefits and that their father would do it the pimp.
But the circulation of letters addressed to Hamlet's Ophelia, that forces us to think This is a farce. Hamlet appears in reality in the eyes of Ophelia and it is something much more serious than these tales of mackerel. In so doing, she makes her letters.
I think it is necessary to continue to examine several meaningful, the main branches of the series of associations of ideas about Ophelia evoked by the text before tackling the themes of his delirium.
When his father is murdered by Hamlet, Ophelia goes mad and makes a speech that is dense enough really hard to follow. What she says is not so crazy. Ophelia said, she is the one who "thinks nothing [1] . This may be understood as that which thinks nothing. So, what she said in her delirium deserves the sentence of a sustained examination. To prepare for this decryption, it is useful to further develop the themes associated with Ophelia and exposed before his delirium.
Among these, is therefore a second set of association different from those around the fish to sell to men. There indeed has a whole vocabulary around the corpses, carrion and the multitude of animals that inhabit them are like maggots.
These evocations are present in the room. Well, it's not very appetizing ...
For example, when Hamlet meets the father of Ophelia at the beginning of the piece: "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog carcass worthy to be kissed ... [2] "
translators refer to another Shakespeare play," Caesar and Cleopatra [3] . In this series of associations, the sun appears, fertilization, snakes, crocodiles of the Nile, the idea of poison. All this goes on with the dead dog and maggots coming to devour the corpses. The idea is that the sun gives life to the maggots. It "embraces" the carrion to fertilize!
We had met an allusion to sirens whose singing to Ulysses promises to teach him life. This suggests that the mystery in question would be that the design human beings from fertilization to birth and life.
Hamlet And, ironically, recommends Polonius not to let her daughter walk in the sun, she could give birth by herself ... him "make small." As "worthy of kissing carrion." So, the body of Ophelia is literally a corpse, a dead dog, a carrion. She is already dead before committing suicide. Lacan might have said she was already in a "second death".
Lacan seminar in Anxiety Ophelia combines the object has little . In this context, it is the subject waste, scrap, junk that men seek to erase their view and destroy. "A pure real subjectivise [4] .
The status of the body of Ophelia prepares one that will come later from his deceased father murdered by Hamlet. The question is what to do with a corpse [5] .
I wonder now if this issue of the remains would not be contrary to that the second death. In Shakespeare, the question posed by Antigone seems reversed. For someone whose life was only carrion and moral decay in the eyes of Hamlet (he deals with the murders and mackerel), why take respects with the remains of the father of Ophelia? Ophelia wondered if it would not "sense [6] " part.
Both, Antigone and Ophelia lose their father. Both refuse to leave a body without respect. For Antigone, this is just to give his deceased brother a destiny worthy of what its owner was in life for others. It is clear Ophelia goes mad when her father dies and can not find his corpse.
But, unlike Antigone, Queen and King is concerned about the fate of the remains. Where did it go? It is actively seeking. It's not quite an Other who does not care about the spoils as in Antigone.
Only Hamlet does not care about the father of Ophelia. Neither its existence nor of his remains. The father of Ophelia is unconscionable, it is a mackerel. He sold it after Hamlet. This dog has a bench of the court that the reference is to kick and abuse. Dead dog, he is the father of Ophelia, "a carrion worthy to be kissed" by the sun (the queen and the king seek). Hamlet puts it outside, away from the royal court and the Other. It is not worth the pain of a burial.
Hamlet rejects, but not the king who counted on him. There is the other side of the king, queen and court. On the other hand, Hamlet and his ghost wandering in doubt. Hamlet is already as Ophelia its existence is spectral. No matter for him the fate of the remains, what matters is the specter, spirit. With Hamlet, we are in a field separate from that of Antigone. Not an Other of the Other. Rather offstage, out of the Other. In reality pure. Where the body does not count. Neither his, nor that of Ophelia.
suite for the next issue!
[1] - p. 825
[2] - p. 771
[3] - note II, VII, 25-26 Caesar and Cleopatra and note 44 of Act II of Hamlet
[4] - meeting on 3 July 1963
[5] - In modern times, we gave a precise answer to the question of waste. We "recycle" an environmentally friendly way, we transform them to give them a new use
[6] - p. 829. "Mean" its meaning.
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