Ernest Jones wrote a book called Hamlet and Oedipus where he argued that Hamlet's ambivalence about avenging his father results from his own incestuous wishes. Hamlet was in this case the perfect embodiment of the Oedipus Complex which is, as we know is the mainstay of classical Freudian theory. Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher may have had his own oedipal problems with the founder of psychoanalysis when he wrote Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, but both the Oedipus and Electra co...
Ernest Jones wrote a book called Hamlet and Oedipus where he argued that Hamlet's ambivalence about avenging his father results from his own incestuous wishes. Hamlet was in this case the perfect embodiment of the Oedipus Complex which is, as we know is the mainstay of classical Freudian theory. Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher may have had his own oedipal problems with the founder of psychoanalysis when he wrote Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, but both the Oedipus and Electra co...
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