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Freudian Theory and Hamlet

Hamlet is able to do anything -- except take vengeance on the man who did away with his father and took that father's place with his mother, the man who shows him the repressed wishes of his own childhood realized. Thus the loathing which should drive him on to revenge is replaced in him by self-reproaches, by scruples of conscience, which remind him that he himself is literally no better than the sinner whom he is to punish.

- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

The superego makes the ego believe that its moral decisions are rational, and appeals to the id's desire to kill Claudius

Psychoanalysis

Id

impulse, immediate fulfillment

Ego

regulates id

with rationality

Superego

morals, right and wrong

a method through which an analyst unpacks unconscious conflicts based on the free associations, dreams and fantasies of the patient.

Ghost

Do not forget: this visitation

Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.

But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:

O, step between her and her fighting soul:

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:

Speak to her, Hamlet.

Conscious vs unconscious

So why does he hesitate to kill Claudius?

Act III, Scene III

Hamlet to Gertrude

Look here, upon this picture, and on this,

The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.

See, what a grace was seated on this brow;

Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;

An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;

A station like the herald Mercury

New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;

A combination and a form indeed,

Where every god did seem to set his seal,

To give the world assurance of a man:

This was your husband.

Knowing yourself by making your unconscious conscious, and confronting it.

Hamlet

Oedipus Complex

Child's suppressed (and therefore unconscious) desire to have sexual relations with the parent of opposite sex.

Id

Ego

Superego

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