What supports the interpretation that Hamlet suffers from an Oedipus complex in 'Hamlet'?

Answer 1

His passive resistance to his father's wishes

His rage toward his mother

if you want the long answer here it is

I think there are three probable hints to this interpretation:

1) Hamlet is really in a lot of pain on account of his

mother's relationship with Claudius. In fact he is more

occupied with this incestuous relationship than he is with

the thought of avenging his father's murder.

2) He does not kill Claudius even when he is fully

convinced of his guilt. Even in the end he probably

kills Claudius for having conspired with Laertes against

him and when he knows for certain that he is

going to die.

3) He identifies Ophelia and his mother as a type. He considers his mother's frailty reason enough for not trusting Ophelia. His attitude towards both of them (though one is his beloved and one his mother) is similar. He is constantly confusing his feelings for the two of them.

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Specifically, Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude marries Claudius, Hamlet's paternal uncle and the killer of Hamlet's father. Hamlet delays in taking vengeance because of how happy his mother is in her second marriage. Hamlet disapproves of Claudius, but delays in taking vengeance because of his mother's great happiness in her second marriage. That he is swayed by his mother's feelings even though he is hostile to albeit unwelcome fatherly role that Claudius assumes therefore fits with the Freudian argument of great maternal attachment and great paternal alienation.

Hamlet mistreats Ophelia.

Hamlet resists obeying his father's ghost's commands.

Answer 2

Yes, it's possible to say that Prince Hamlet more or less suffers from an Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex is a stage that Sigmund Freud [May 6, 1856-September 23, 1939] identifies in a male child's mental and emotional development. In that stage, the father figure becomes a competitor to the child in terms of the mother/wife figure in the family. Hamlet indeed appears to identify most strongly with his mother, Queen Gertrude.

In extreme cases of the Oedipus complex, the child actually carries out a death wish against the father. That's precisely what the complex's original victim does: Albeit unknowingly, Theban King Oedipus kills his own father and marries his own mother. In the case of Hamlet, it's possible to say that the prince loves his mother so exclusively that he lets his father's memory die along with the actual death.

Answer 3

There is nothing that supports the hamlet. The Oedipus complex is on it's own.

Answer 4

Gertrude.