Many directors on both stage and screen have dramatised Act III Scene IV of Hamlet with Freud's Oedipus complex in mind. With detailed reference to this scene and the play as a whole, discuss how valid this interpretation is. How much scope is there for

... Many directors on both stage and screen have dramatised Act III Scene IV of Hamlet with Freud's Oedipus complex in mind. With detailed reference to this scene and the play as a whole, discuss how valid this interpretation is. How much scope is there for presenting ActIII Scene IV on other ways? Psychoanalytical criticism, developed by Freud, is a way to interpret authors, and other artists' work, making connections between the authors themselves and what they actually create. The Oedipus complex is a psychoanalytical theory where a child has the unconscious desire for the exclusive love of the parent of the opposite sex. The desire includes jealousy towards the parent of the same sex and the unconscious wish for that parent's death. It usually occurs between the ages of three to five and is a normal developmental process of human psychological growth. The stage is usually ended when the

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