Hamlet-izing my thesis.

[kageotogi]

So I've been thinking on the Honors Thesis a little more, and I actually came up with an idea during Shakespeare (gasp!) today, between arguing with Doctor Smith about Gertrude's innocence and the whole inaction-action shindig. Basically, I would be psychoanalyzing Hamlet (this idea was reinforced when Doctor Smith actually read out a bit about Hamlet from one of Freud's publications). I'm not sure what I would say about him, but psychoanalytic criticism is one of the few things I actually enjoyed from Doctor Idris's class last year. So...

The downside to doing a Shakespeare thesis is that Doctor Smith would be my advisor, and I'm not entirely sure (a) that she likes me very much, (b) that I could put up with her obsession with Shakespeare, or (c) she'd be up for it (she's rather ill). Nonetheless, it's a topic that makes both the English major in me happy and the part of me that misses being a psych major (not that I ever really was one; I was just seriously considering it).

I googled a bit to see how do-able the topic would be, and the prospects are pretty good:

Hamlet and Oedipus Rex
Now, Mother, what's the matter?
Shakespeare in psychoanalysis

Those are only a few of the things I've found... so it's very, very do-able. What do you all think? Should I confront my fear of Doctor Smith and give this topic a shot?

Comments

[boobiequeen.livejournal.com]

I know. I think it's just an intriguing subject, because I don't know much about it...I'm just really learning and analyzing Hamlet this semester...have only ever just read it as another one of those Shakespeare things..heh. It's the one where Gertrude is telling Laertes that Ophelia is dead.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

^.^ Awesome. I'll keep you posted.