Shakespeare's tragicomedy 'Hamlet' is notable for only two female characters, both of whom are closely related to Hamlet as the protagonist: Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and matriarch of the play, and Ophelia, Hamlet's younger love. In this essay, the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude will be explored in relation to the Freudian Oedipus complex. Hamlet’s toxic relationship with his mother can be viewed as being Freudian, specifically in relation to the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex is a stage that Freud...
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What did Freud say about women? And how did feminism respond? Introduction to psychoanalysis and gender: According to Freud’s psychosexual theory of personality development, it is suggested that gender development occurs during the phallic stage. This is when a child is between the ages of 3 and 6 years old. Psychoanalytic theories suggest that gender development is different for boys and girls (Freud, 1905). The Oedipus complex is a term created by Freud and implies that through this complex, boys...
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A Theory Rising Up from the Tragedy: Freud's Oedipus complex “Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left to breed With her own seed, a monstrous progeny. Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood, Husband by husband, children by her child.” -Sophocles One of the best-known examples of Greek tragedies, Oedipus the King, the king of...
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In order to approach and analyze any literary texts using any cultural theory to make sense of the text in question, the School of Psychoanalysis, for example, we need to have some cultural and literary tools that help mediate between literature and culture. we can use two different devices and mediation tools that are used to deal with any chosen text. Oedipus complex and displacement are two examples of the mediating tools, a psychoanalyst can use to approach Shakespeare's Hamlet....
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Felix Bruno Bettelheim, Christian Metz, and Michel Foucault are psychologists that gave me the concepts that might be useful for a psychological reading or interpretation of the film The Lion King, an American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released by Walt Disney Picture in 1994. The ideas and concepts of Foucault, Bettelheim, and Metz can be linked as a rational theoretical framework, as it provides the basis upon which this interpretation can be based on. Bettelheim said...
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Younger men choose older women as their ardent partners more than we realize such as famous Filipino celebrity pairings like Vicki Belo and her 24 years younger husband Hayden Kho, but many other couples have an even more significant age gap, yet, despite potential discrimination and stigma, age-gap relationships between younger men and older women continue to survive and thrive. Couples where the women are significantly older than her male partner currently have a high prominence in national and international...
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The Oedipal complex, also known as the Oedipus complex, is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of development to describe a child's feelings of desire for his or her opposite-sex parent and jealousy and anger toward his or her same-sex parent. Essentially, a boy feels that he is competing with his father for possession of his mother, while a girl feels that she is competing with her mother for her father's affections. According to...
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Also called the oedipal complex, the Oedipus complex is a term used in the psychosexual stages of development theory by Sigmund Freud. The concept, first proposed by Freud in 1899 and not formally used until 1910, refers to a male child’s attraction to their parent of the opposite sex (mother) and jealousy of their parent of the same sex (father). According to the controversial concept, children view the same-sex parent as a rival. Specifically, a boy feels the need to...
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