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Cavell reads Hamlet as a drama about separateness. We are separate from both the world and other minds because they are different from us. Knowledge of their existence is always vulnerable to the insinuation of doubt. To try to defeat this separateness is pathological; to come to terms with it, according to Cavell’s reading of Hamlet, requires two
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Specifically, Freud helps Cavell to interpret the attempt to secure the certainty and reason of philosophy as pathological mother-denial, a refusal of our humanity.