Freud's development of the Oedipus Complex can be supposed as coming from his own experiences. As a young male infant, he had witnessed his mother naked and had developed some sort of sexually stimulation. Additionally, when his father passed away it aroused recollections of the hatred he had for his father, and how he use to visualize his death. He mentioned, "I have found a love of the mother and a jealously of the father in my own case too, and now believe it to be a general phenomenon of early childhood, even if it does not occur so early as in children who have been made hysterics"(Berger 81). Each and every child is challenged with the duty of grasping the id's urges for the incestual relations of the Oedipus, and failure to do so resulted in a basis for neurosis. However it could be argued that the feelings never leave but rather become repressed. Regardless, the Oedipus Complex became the basis of many of his theories and helped to make astonishing developments in the area of dream analysis.
             Through William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Shakespeare depicts Hamlet with similar types of behaviors and characteristics that Freud discussed within the Oedipus Complex. Hamlet's melancholy is a neurosis caused by his unsettled incestuous feelings towards his mother
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