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Oedipus Complex

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Hamlet Complex

Hamlet Complex emerges in that delay and not doing it. And then what we, he represses, what ends up happening for the rest of the play is process, is death drive. He is repressing his own, like, his own self-destruction,. But I think you're right that there's some kind of way in which the main focus of the play undergoes a shift at the end toward away from object and toward drive.

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