Psychological Approach in Hamlet

1. Psychological approach in Hamlet :
● Name : Gohil Jyotiba M.
● Paper No : 1 – The Renaissance
Literature .
● Topic : Psychological approach in
Hamlet.
● Roll No : 18
● Enrollment No :
2069108420180016
● Email ID :
jyotibagohil96@gmail.com
● Submitted to : Smt
S.B.Gardi.Department of English,
MK Bhavnagar University.

2. ●Psychological
approach :
• Created by Sigmund
Freud
• It used to provide a
model for
understanding Human
thought, emotions and
behaviours
• He believes that mind
can be divided into
three components :
• 1) Id
• 2) Ego
• 3) Super Ego.

3. ● Oedipus
Complex :
• Psychoanalytic theory
• First describe by Sigmund Freud
• Hamlet and oedipus the king
• ‘ An undue and unhealthy attachment of
son for his mother ‘
• Having a sexual desires for parents of
opposite sex.
• Hamlet upset not only mother married
Claudius So quickly after his father ‘s
death but because Claudious taken his
place alongside his mother as king.
• which Hamlet subconsciously wanted to
do.

4. ● Misogyny
• Hatred for woman
• His mind disorder women
personality
• Not except his mother and
beloved Ophelia
• Misbehave with Ophelia and
Gertrude
• Gertrude ‘s Overhastige marriage
with Claudius.
• “ Frailty thy Name is women “
• Told Ophelia to become nunnery.

5. ● Hamlet ‘s
madness :
• Strange and erratic behaviour
• Cruelty towards Ophelia
• Excessive Melancholy
• Depressed not able to take fair
decision
• Think of committing suicide
• Frustration and Mental
disturbance
• Frustration about his mother
and Claudius.
• Too much Thinking

6. ● Soliloquies
of Hamlet :
• Display the innermost layers of
Human psyche
• it is like ice burg : Out ward
behaviour demonstrate only ten
percent part of what a person is.
• Conflict of Human mind
• “ To be , or not to be , that is question
“
• Most authentic
• Analyze the inner psyche of character
• Inner struggle of human
• Struggle with in the soul.