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t of the way. (Freud derived the term from Sophocles39。 Greek tragedy Oedipus the King, whose protagonist has unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.) ? Jones proposes that Hamlet39。s conflict is an echo of a similar one in Shakespeare himself, and goes on to account for the audience39。s powerful and continued response to the play, over many centuries, as a result of the repressed Oedipal conflict that is shared by all men. ? The character of the ghost and Claudius are dramatic projections of Hamlet’ s own consciousunconscious ambivalence toward the father figure. The ghost represents the conscious ideal of fatherhood. His view of Claudius represents Hamlet’ s repressed hostility toward his father as a rival for his mother’ s affection. Limitations Psychological Approach makes it very easy for the reader to treat the fictional characters as real human beings (best example: Hamlet) Analyzer is not omniscient: As Freud’ s own difficulty in analyzing his object (. Dora) shows, sometimes in the process of analysis, the “ analyzer” must also consider his/her own psychology and bias before applying this approach