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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink
**Living Posthumously?**
Theoretical move: Fink contests Lacan's reading that Hamlet ultimately acts, arguing instead that Hamlet's final words reveal a constitutively neurotic structure in which the subject's time never arrives and action must always be deferred to another—making Hamlet a paradigm of the neurotic who lives posthumously rather than in the present.
The neurotic never acts in the present, living instead in the past or but for posterity—posthumously.