150-156). According to Jones, Hamlet's successfully repressed covetousness for his father and lure to his mother is readdressed by Gertrude's remarriage to Claudius, this also results in maternal loss as is apparent from Hamlet's first soliloquy (Hull.uk). According to Adelman, the son needs 'to make his own identity in the presence of the wife/mother', whose 'chief crime is her uncontrolled sexuality' which becomes an object of disgust for her son (Hull.uk). A partial translation into modern English of the first soliloquy is given by Rubinstein and Partridge, which throws immense light on the sexuality underlying it: " How weary, stale [prostitute], flat [to copulate], and unprofitable seem [to fornicate, with additional pun on 'seam': filth] to me all the uses [sexual enjoyment] of this world! Fie on't, ah fie [dung], 'tis an unweeded garden [womb] that grows [becomes pregnant] to seed [semen], things [male sex] rank [in heat] and gross [lewd] in nature [female sex] possess it [sexually] merely [ 'merrily', lecherously]." (Hull.uk). Furthermore, Hamlet is dominated by disgust for his mother's sexuality to an exaggeration; which according to T. S. Eliot is "a feeling which he cannot understand remains to poison life and construct action." (Bartleby.com). Additionally, the 'increase' of Gertrude's voracious 'appetite' triggers the shift from a comforting 'her' to an angst-ridden 'she' (Hull.uk). However, there is a stronger incestuous desire in the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude, his mother; as is apparent in the following: "My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time and makes as healthful music". (III. iv. 161-162). 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.
