He is the founding father of psychoanalysis, he is qualified as a doctor in medicine at the university of Vienna. (1856-1939)
Mother Son
Father Son
Relationships
Hamlet Mind Map
"'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father; But you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever In obstinate condolement isa course Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief"'
(I.2.89-96).
Psychoanalysis
A psychological theory and therapy that treats mental disorders by studying interactions of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind. By bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
Hamlets unresolved guiltiness and grief of the loss of his father
OH God!
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Murder!
Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue
1.2.6
Oedipal Complex
The Oedipal complex is
a term used by Sigmund
Freud in his theory of
psycho sexual stages of
development. It is the
sons desire for his mother
and jealously and anger
towards his father.
As a child, Hamlet always expressed the warmest fondness and affection for his mother.
"Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven,
And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd.
A villain kills my father; and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.(80)
...No.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.(90)
When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;
Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
At game, a-swearing, or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in't
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,(95)
And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
As hell, whereto it goes."