 Hamlet says that he would much rather take a stab at the murderer while he is frolicking in the "incestuous sheets", or gambling and drinking, so he could be sure of his going straight to hell.Ernest Jones, following the work of Sigmund Freud, held that Hamlet suffered from the Oedipus complex.He said in his essay "The Oedipus-Complex as an Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery