Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition of After Oedipus -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Part One Hamlet in Psychoanalysis -- Chapter One "Shapes of Grief": Hamlet, Freud, and Mourning -- Chapter Two The Trauerspiel of Criticism -- Chapter Three Hamlet' s Flesh: Lacan and the Desire of the Mother -- Chapter Four Hamlet's "Ursceneca" -- Inter-Section -- Part Two The Lear Real -- Chapter Five The Motif of the Three Caskets -- Chapter Six The Lacanian Thing -- Chapter Seven The Tragedy of Foreclosure -- After-Word -- Appendix The Subject of Religion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.