Cheerskep: Are you lamenting the absymal blinkering involved in the use of
defence mechanisms or denying that the author has taken a clear-sighted view
of human functioning or that that interpretation of "the meaning" of Hamlet
is "blinkered"?
Geoff C
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Subject: Re: Envisioning
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:46:39 EDT
A well-crafted metaphor can be fascinating, but, as Walter Kaufman said,
anything can be claimed to be metaphorically "true". (Kaufman was a
Princeton
philosopher who wrote a good deal about metaphor.)
Chan's notion that "the meaning of HAMLET" is: we pursue trivialities to
keep
ourselves from looking at "profundities" -- especially that ultimate
"profundity": "We're all going to die" -- strikes me as abysmally
blinkered.
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