Give-n-Take

After pondering my posts about possible paper topics, I came to realize I was much more enthused about the folklore topic than the Jungian one. Which is really awesome cause Elle emailed me this morning and let me know she is super into the idea of analyzing Hamlet and Jungian's concept of the persona. Because I'd already done a little research and found some critical articles on Hamlet that may have to do with Jungian philosophy, I decided to pass them on to Elle and also share here! 

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/philnotes.html - down to philosophy goes to the movies

mythic criticism of hamlet http://www.hamlethaven.com/mythiccriticism.html

psychoanalytic critcism of hamlet - http://www.hamlethaven.com/psychoanalytic.html

Let me know if they end up helping you out at all! 

Hamlet, Inception, and Jungian Philosophy

In another class, we're reading the script for Christopher Nolan's Inception from a Jungian/ archetypal perspective. Since I'm so entrenched in this process, I started to wonder about Hamlet through this lens. I wonder if it would be interesting to analyze and compare the two ... what universal themes and archetypes as expressed in Hamlet does Nolan carry forward into contemporary film?

I thought I'd do some preliminary study on Hamlet through archetypal or cultural criticism. Here are two articles I found: One is about the scapegoat archetype of Polonius and one about the universal disappointment in imperfect parents.  It also brought me to a resource that many of you might find particularly useful, an online annotated bibliography to Hamlet research called Hamlet Haven.