Prologue
Who's there? : a question of identity
The ghost's commandment : revenge my shame
Freud's "family romances" : power and belonging
"Some vicious mole of nature" : bad
or just unlucky?
Mad for thy love : infected by the social emotions
Rossencraft & Gilderstone : destiny's happy dupes
The fair Ophelia : truth or transference?
"Wild and whirling words" : Freud's phobia, Dora's dream
To be or not to be? : conscience and the false self
Hamlet writes The mousetrap : method acting and metatheater
The double soliloquy : Freud's "compulsion to repeat"
A mirror in the queen's closet : the good enough mother
The prince and his brothers : war, murder, and manhood
"Readiness is all. Let be." : disillusion and the strength to bear it
The final curtain : the ghost and the death instinct.