What Is Freud Talking About?

The extract from The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud talks about Hamlets impotency. He describes him as "the type of man whose power of direct action is paralyzed by an excessive development oh his intellect". Freud describes Hamlet as the type of guy that over thinks everything, which is the most general characterization in Hamlet, Freud over thinks the topic and takes Hamlets actions as not an over thinker about everything and gives the reader examples in which he kills a series of man in the play without thinking it twice. It is the fact if vengeance towards his father that makes him over thinks everything. Furthermore Freud analyses Shakespeare and his history while he was writing Hamlet, which leads him to think that Shakespeare wrote about things that were trouble ling him during that time (like the death of his son Hamnet). I liked the fact that Freud does not only try to understand Hamlets actions of thought but those of the writer and reaches a conclusion that is not only true but interesting: "so all genuinely creative writing are the product of more than a single motive and more than a single impulse in the poet´s mind, and are open to more than a single interpretation".