The Daemon's Ghostly Secret: Shakespeare, Heidegger, Freud. Daemonic Disjunctions. Homo Castus -- 1. From the Daemon to Conscience. The Language of Historicality. Pauline Syneidesis. Freud's Moses and Monotheism. Freud's Trieblehre. Heidegger and Plato's Periakteon -- 2. Shakespeare in the History of Being. The Daemon and the Gift. Jews, Ewes, and Uses of Will in The Merchant of Venice. The Friend in the Night of Language: Will in the Sonnets -- 3. The Searing Thing: Hamlet's Countersignature. "Disasters in the Sun" The Phylactery of the Law. Reading Readiness. Razing the Sanctuary: Measure for Measure -- 4. Frustration: Heidegger, Freud, Macbeth. Versagung and the Law of Stricture. Freud's Macbeth. "Rubs and Botches": The Clinging of Conscience in Macbeth -- 5. Shakespeare's Cinders. Cinders of the Law. Beyond the Maternal Relation: Conscience in Coriolanus -- Reading Another Will: Gerome and Shakespeare.