Because of this tendency, psychologists have concluded that Hamlet must have suffered from an Oedipus complex (pinkmonkey.com). According to the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, all males possess this tendency, which is marked by a desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers; as occurs in the earlier Greek play of Oedipus the king. ... In 1917, Freud published his essay called Mourning and melancholia in which he identifies its symptoms as: "a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, a...

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Some critics attribute Hamlets inability to act to an Oedipus complex. ... According to Freud, whenever a person cannot bring himself to do something that every conscious consideration tells him he should do, it is because there is some hidden or unconscious reason why a part of him doesn't want to do it. ... Others say Hamlet hesitates due to Sigmund Freud's theory that Hamlet has an Oedipal complex. ... "Hamlet and Freud." ...

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As Sigmund Freud has stated, its greatness rivals that of Oedipus Rex and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky as it is a moral story about patricide, while also acting as a psychological understanding of humanity. ...

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With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...

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