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Because of the polysemy of the term “readiness,” Hamlet’s famous phrase “The readiness is all,” which Freud reprises in modified form, orients us toward a description of Freudian method as a combination of readiness—as opposed to preparation and prediction—and method—which aims to maintain the metastability of the process. This method is incarnated in the deployment of the “psychological chimera” introduced by Michel de M’Uzan, which combines the “filled-in” and “hollowed-out” forms of transference as conceived by Jean Laplanche. In the background, here is poet and translator Yves Bonnefoy’s commentary on Hamlet.