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Oedipus Complex

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Freud's Reading of Oedipus and Hamlet

Freud's interpretation of Oedipus and Hamlet is a bit of an imprecision from things that he would either like come to believe later or even things he believed at the time. He didn't mention it in 1909 at Clark lectures because he thought the same way or because it wasn't a complex to him. It just doesn't make any sense if you read the play, right? Like it just, like, that's what he really is sleeping with his biological mother and killing his biological father,. but he has no way of knowing again, even unconsciously that that's true.

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