Tuesday, October 10, 2006
man.. now i know why i don't love my mom..
hahaha.. cause of 'Odeipus'. in the play,
it was stated that a man's love for his mom,
or a woman's love for her dad..
is brought about by sexual desires..
actually i find it hard to accept this fact...
n psycological theory, we are suppressing "forbidden" thoughts,
and therefore we blind ourselves from it.
this fact i can accept..
but the fact that a boy's love for his mom,
or a girls love for her dad,
based on such wild imaginative agression is unacceptable..
of cause, this denial is dubbed by psycologists as "resistance"..
but the risistance, however it is done,
does not prove that the idea wasn't there at all..
This brings me to Hamlet,
there's always been a riddle,
posed to mankind from this shakespearean play.
why, was Hamlet unable to act against his uncle, Caudius?
(don't worry, this is connected to the 'odeipus' theory)
for the fact that Hamlet himself,
has taken action in his revenge,
killing Polonius and executing the wonderful,
"play-within-a-play" tactic to trick claudius into showing his guilt.
adding in the fact that he later sends
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their graves..
from all these, apparently there's only one thing he cannot do,
to take vengence,
aginst the man who killed his dad and bedded his mom..
why?
the 1st man who figured it out,
turns out to be a reknown psycologist,
Freud, Sigmond.
according to him,
the reason is infact very simple..
Hamlet, sees in his uncle's deed,
his own Odeipal wishes fulfilled..
Claudius had done only what Hamlet had wanted to.
Thus the loathing which should drive him to revenge,
is replaced in him by self-reproaches,
by scruples of conscience.
the fact that Hamlet,
suffers from self-reproach is undeniable.
overand over, he castrigates himself-excessively,
almost irrationally.
he even contemplates suicide..
or at least, that's how the "to be, or not to be"
speech is always interpreted.
why would he feel so guilty,
when he's out to revenge his father?
that was the key reason to the answer of the riddle.
once you know why he's guilty,
you'd know why he couldn't act upon his vengence.
no one was able to explain the famous soliloquy,
"to be, or not to be.................", til Freud.
according to Freud, Hamlet knew-unconciously-
that he, had wished to kill his dad,
and to replace his dad on his mom's bed,
just as Cluadius has done.
Hamlet, had seen in Claudius's deed,
a representation of his own wishes,
Claudius has acted out what he desired,
Claudius has become an embodiment of his wishes,
Claudius was his mirror.
Hamlet's thought has ran from revenge,
to guilt and suicide,
as he saw in Claudius a part of himself.
killing Claudius would be like killing himself..
He infact, was suffering overwhelming guilt,
from his Odeipal wishes that he has not suppressed.
thickening the mask and nourishing the devil@ {10:45 PM}
