Inheritance of debt, procrastination of desire and possible relationship with the registration of law in obsessional neurosis

Abstract

Through the investigations that Lacan elaborates on the obsessional neurosis, due to the Shakespearean tragedy, Hamlet, some aspects may evidence to us interesting reflections. This work comes from fruitful investigations in the field of Obsessional Neurosis and within researches that aimed to clarify the theoretical and clinical problems that usually arise in the treatment of neurosis. Thus, an interesting way forward to look at this issue concerns on the inheritance of symbolic debt, considering the way wich the obsessive drives his desire and his unconscious fantasy to Other, and the way the obsessive remains unsatisfied his constituent desire. This path should be traversed using a feature that brightly is able to make us witness the psyche: a literary text, more specifically, the Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. These are the terms that give relevance to the results of this study since this step allows us to advance clinically and in the treatment of obsessional neurosis and provides further evidence to research the subject in the field of psychoanalytic literature.