Hamlet and Freud
...posedly is, with the same levels of intelligence and suffering from the same fears, doubts, impulses and paralysis of will as the dane. They both have suicidal tendencies,and both see their fathers as ghosts. The father is probably the most important person in their lives, although dead in both cases (for the Rat Man's, he has been dead for nine years when Freud wrote his papers). Freud claims that the fathers act as sexual interferers; this, to some extent, is true: consider the oedipal desires of Hamlet. He wants to sleep with his mother; he has to, however, kill his father to do that. Claudius instead takes on the role of murderer but practically simultaneously usurps Hamlet's right to the throne (and his delusional incestuous ideas). In the ...