ABSTRACT
The possible inter-relationship of the crimes, and the fact that the author of them is an actual member of the family, give scope for confusion in their influence on Hamlet's mind which may be the cause of the very obscurity one is seeking to clarify. Bradley even goes as far as to make out a case for the view that Hamlet's self-accusation of bestial oblivion is to be taken in a literal sense, his unconscious detestation of his task being so intense as to enable him actually to forget it for periods. According to Bradley, Hamlet's melancholic disgust at life was the cause of his aversion from any kind of decided action. The extensive experience of the psycho-analytic researches carried out by Freud and his school during the past half-century has amply demonstrated that certain kinds of mental process show a greater tendency to be inaccessible to consciousness than others.
