Hamlet of Anarchy Intro Discuss Freud and Oedipus and how Hamlet fits the bill According to Freud, "Claudius represents, in flesh and blood, the embodiment of Hamlet's Oedipal urges" (Freud, 1900; Jones, 1976). Ernest Jones, in Hamlet and Oedipus, states: In reality his uncle incorporates the deepest and most buried part of his own personality, so that he cannot kill him without also killing himself. This solution, one closely akin to what Freud has shown to be the motive of suicide in melancholia
Search for Meaning in Shakespeare's Hamlet But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon (3.4.208-10) What is real? This question, begged by humanity from day one, seems to grow in importance and urgency as the twenty-first century looms on the road ahead. When religion, culture, family, and meaning are all forced to play second fiddle to the almighty dollar, where do we turn for understanding? I think the answer is that we turn inward. After all, there must be