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  • My Long Goodbye

    Meghan O'Rourke's interpretation of Hamlet's unintegrated grief is right on the money. Grief that cannot find what I call a ''relational home'' becomes melancholia. This is one of the points that I emphasize in my book, Trauma and Human Existence (Routledge, 2007), which can be accessed via my website, robertdstolorow.googlepages.com. The ideas in ...
    Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on March 31, 2009

  • Re: salamanders

    ''The entire play ''Hamlet'' took just four and a half days to generate.'' << I wonder what our friend CH, the one on whose article we are commenting, thinks about this. If Hamlet could be done in four days, I'm sure the same computer program could generate his entire collected works in a couple of weeks. His evidently deep respect for ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Fugger on August 5, 2008

  • Another "Don't Burn It" Argument

    I'm not sure if anyone else has made this argument, but I just wanted to point out that Dmitri says one reason he doesn't want to publish Laura is that he is afraid the Lolitologists will foul up its interpretation and, in doing so, dishonor his father's memory, or something like that. Would Dmitri then have preferred that the Lolita manuscript ...
    Posted to The Spectator by wellerbe on January 26, 2008

  • Riposa in pace, Laura

    Regarding Laura There's the suppose story about Shakespeare's works: Suppose Hamlet--or any other of Shakespeare's works--had been written by a robot or by some sort of very clever computer program, would I still draw the same pleasure in reading it that I do knowing it was written by a Shakespeare of flesh and blood? The answer is no. I could ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Ermes Culos on January 19, 2008