Hamlet and Oedipus Author:Ernest Jones A classic study in the psychoanalysis of literature. Of the great number of psychoanalytic studies of literary subjects that have appeared during the recent past, this work by Freud's biographer and greatest living disciple is by far the best. Dr Jones begins with a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature in all languages, and after discus... more »sing his objections to the previous explanations of the Hamlet problem, points out that the true explanation can only lie, as is always the case with mysterious inhibitions, in the sphere of unconscious conflicts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_and_Oedipus« less