Freud in Hamlet, Hamlet in Freud

The Freudian analysis of Hamlet makes sense with Hamlet; it fits into the plot and character of Hamlet (or is it just that Hamlet is made to fit into Freud’s ideas?). However, there was one thing that seemed to be an inconsistency with Freud’s ideas. Freud’s Oedipus Complex manifests during the younger years, but, as we mentioned in class, as the castration complex develops the child loses interests with the mother as a love object and begins to relate with, and tries to imitate, the father. In Hamlet’s case it seems that only one of these results of the castration complex takes place. Hamlet identifies with his father, he seems, from his mourning, to have loved his father, not competed with him. If his relationship is that of competition then he might have felt that “secret joy and satisfaction” that Jones talks about in his essay. However we see Hamlet displaying nothing but sadness over the death of his father. Yet he also is, according to Jones and Freud, viewing his mother as a love object, which seems inconsistent with the theory as I understand it.