Prince hamlet disposes the duty of avenging his father upon himself but has a difficult time accomplishing the goal he had set out for himself, why? No concrete study could explain why it was so until Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory in 1899. Sigmund Frued’s theory indicated that young children have sexual feelings towards the opposite gendered parent called the Oedipus Complex.
In Mark Robsen’s analysis of Hamlet he sees thinking external that could be hindering Hamlet’s ability to assassin King Claudius earlier on in the play. Robsen’s hypothesis is that the young prince has repressed feelings towards his mother that are only coming to the surface now. The prince of Denmark himself