
Oedipus Complex
Why Theory
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Is It the Hamlet Complex?
"I don't think that the Oedipus complex does enough to explain Hamlet acting," she says. "To kill, it's like, I don't know, is it like Lady in Shanghai, you know, killing you is really killing myself?" She adds: 'Maybe it's always true that repressed desire is a barrier to action' But he can't kill someone who's guilty of what he desires - even if being alive prevents him from doing it.
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