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Introducing a series of lectures on the works of the French psychoanalyst Paul-Claude Racamier, the author will emphasize the role of the origins in psychological development. Racamier's notions such primal mourning, antoedipe and ambiguity will be presented as key facets of the clinical understanding and psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In this paper, the different psychoanalytic lectures of “Hamlet” are confronted to new findings claiming Hamlet to be guilty of his father''s murder (Bayard, Enquête sur Hamlet, 2002). Then, Shakespeare''s masterpiece is discussed as a paradigm of paradoxality and ambiguity from which stems its unbroken fascination. Instead of determining arbitrarily if Hamlet or Claudius are the villains, a new interpretation uncloses a third possibility of who might be responsable for the king''s death: what if Hamlet''s mother Gertrude has conceived the King''s murder? Finally, the author points out the heuristic value that “Hamlet” contains both as a paradigm and an enigm, for the theory and the practice of nowadays psychoanalysis. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]