
Oedipus Complex
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The Oedipus Complex in Hamlet
We don't know anything at all about Hamlet before the play starts. And so it's almost like the taboo comes to him, you know, and he has to respond to it in the same way that people say they don't desire their mother. So if we didn't have this prior event in Hamlet, then this whole way of relating to his mother would never have happened. Right? Like, that's what you're saying, right? The Oedipus complex is premised on an event that we don't see.
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