Hamlet is forced to realize that there is no truth with a capital T, no Truth about the truth, as it were, but only “the moment of truth”—the moment at which he accedes to his desire and takes action, at which he puts his desire into action. Hamlet, like the obsessive more generally, is always living on the Other’s time, the Other’s watch, not on his own. He always peaks too early or prepares for something when it is too late, never choosing to do something when the time is ripe for him but leaving it up to fate to decide when to act.
Bruce Fink, Lacan on Desire, loc 2045
Mark Carrigan 