HEDDA GABLER PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF THE PLAY
HEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY
by Nigel Hand
The established view of Hedda Gabler sees the play as a study of the frustration and despair
engendered in the exceptional individual by a conventionalised society. In this paper I present a
psychoanalytic re-interpretation of the play which in certain respects inverts this received reading.
Insofar as it does so, however, my interpretation is intended not to cancel the received view but to
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…ly women,
are natural enough in themselves, but everything which subsequently happens in the play serves to make the
nature of the sexual relationship between the off-stage couple (which is of course variously constituted) a
source of great perplexity for the 'spectator' both on and off the stage, this of course being the essence of
the primal scene experience. Here then we have the third variation of the triangular figure which structures
the pl
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