The Oedipus Complex

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…killing himself. This solution of murder -- suicide is one closely akin to what Freud has attributed, through his studies, to be the motive of suicide in melancholy. This is the solution that Hamlet finally adopts. Shakespeare somehow had the amazing talent of identifying psychological disorders hundreds of years before psychoanalysts even existed. Whenever Shakespeare intended to be the explanation, the fact that remains a mystery will keep literary critics busy writing for another 500 years.