Excerpt: Oh, facts are mixed with fallacies, / Reason falls into madness! Freud's interpretation of Hamlet as Oedipus is enough to show his resistance to Shakespeare, which is extremely complex in the fusion of Lear, the Earl of Oxford, and Freud. What happened to Shakespeare's apocalyptic tragedy? Where is Sigmund Freud, who once knew how to read it? The play, and Freud's explanatory power, disappeared into the desperate need to resist "the Stratford-like actor."
Essay: Bloom was dismissive of Freud's interpretation of Hamlet's behavior as an "Odiphs complex", believing that it was Freud's own "Shakespeare complex" that had caused Freud to boycott Shakespeare. ...