『햄릿』에서의 복수의 불가능성과 경제적 무의식
The Economic Unconscious and the Impossibility of Revenge in Hamlet
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Hamlet’s dull revenge has provoked an unending critical controversy over centuries, in which many able critics and scholars have assailed one another about the hero’s motive in delaying the work of revenge or the causes of the hero’s inability to do the job. The unavailability of critical agreement on these issues suggests that Hamlet is not to be understood as a revenge play per se. Unlike the heroes of other revenge tragedies, Hamlet shows no strong interests in plotting against his evil enemy. This paper argues that Hamlet succeeds where its hero fails, and that the business of Hamlet is not to present the particulars of revenge but rather to let the audience, as well as the future narrative community anticipated by the hero’s dying words, understand the impossibility of revenge as an act of justice. The economic unconscious is abound in the world of Hamlet, where words are treated as coins, and the whole range of human behavior from feeling and thinking to making relations with another individual is put on the scale of evaluation, thus quantified and arithmetically measured. Signalled by the king’s thrift policy, utility defined by instrumental rationality is the dominant ethos in the state of Denmark, in which the language of market exchange prevails in social commerce and communication, all distinctly marked by profit-oriented motives and thus making common terms of justice impossible.
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Hamlet’s dull revenge has provoked an unending critical controversy over centuries, in which many able critics and scholars have assailed one another about the hero’s motive in delaying the work of revenge or the causes of the hero’s inability to do the job. The unavailability of critical agreement on these issues suggests that Hamlet is not to be understood as a revenge play per se. Unlike the heroes of other revenge tragedies, Hamlet shows no strong interests in plotting against his evil enemy. This paper argues that Hamlet succeeds where its hero fails, and that the business of Hamlet is not to present the particulars of revenge but rather to let the audience, as well as the future narrative community anticipated by the hero’s dying words, understand the impossibility of revenge as an act of justice. The economic unconscious is abound in the world of Hamlet, where words are treated as coins, and the whole range of human behavior from feeling and thinking to making relations with another individual is put on the scale of evaluation, thus quantified and arithmetically measured. Signalled by the king’s thrift policy, utility defined by instrumental rationality is the dominant ethos in the state of Denmark, in which the language of market exchange prevails in social commerce and communication, all distinctly marked by profit-oriented motives and thus making common terms of justice impossible.
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