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Oedipus Complex

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Hamlet Complex

"I like the line, that a piss doesn't suffer from out of his complex," he says. "Hamlet does a much better job than Freud in naming what Freud's trying to say." Hamlet is confronted by an unconscious desire to kill your father and so you have sex with your mother as an obstacle. It is an impediment to action because of incest taboo which just seems like you shouldn't do it. The same thing inspires or serves as the impetus to doing something else.

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