Did Hamlet have an Oedipus Complex?

So, there was this guy, Sigmund Freud. Quite the neurologist. He had some interesting ideas pertaining to how human's minds work.

He thought we all have many crazy subconscious desires sitting deep inside our minds, and he probably wasn't wrong. Freud tended to like relating everything to sex though, that's the one thing about the guy. He suggested to a colleague once in 1897 that all addictions, such as his tobacco addiction, were only substitutes for masturbation, "the one great habit".

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Does that have anything to do with Hamlet though? 
You bet it does.

Yep, good ol' Mr. Freud related Hamlet's desire for revenge with some sort of sexual urge. Specifically, he stated that Hamlet was a perfect example of the "Oedipus complex" (a term he himself coined), which essentially states that all dudes, on some deep level, really just want to murder their fathers and have sex with their mothers. Does that match Hamlet? Uh. Maybe? I'm going to go with "probably not" though.

Well, the way this blogger sees it, it matches Hamlet to a certain extent. I mean, maybe he doesn't want to get all sexy with his mom, but he could easily be a little jealous of all the attention she's giving to uncle-dad Claudius, right? We see clearly in the play that Hamlet is upset with how quickly his mother moved on, and how he almost feels that she's unfaithful, in a sense, to his deceased father.

In addition, the killing of the father part is somewhat covered, even though Hamlet's true father is already dead. The very man who murdered him took his role as the king, and as Hamlet's father, by marrying the queen. Hamlet wants revenge.

As you can surely see, Hamlet wants to end his "father's" life, in order to be with his mother. But not sexually. He just wants to be closer with her. You really didn't need to throw that sex part into everything, Freud.