This question came up whilst discussing the finer points of Zeffirelli's Hamlet and, not being a Shakespearean scholar of any sort, I was curious: was the Oedipal Hamlet a construct that came about in the 20th century, or was it fairly explicit in the text and interpretations prior to Freud?
I'm going to ping /u/texpeare who specialises in Shakespeare just to add any information that I leave out as I'm not a Shakespearean scholar either.
What I can say is the Oedipus complex (and the Electra Complex) are completely and utterly Freudian, I'm sure people might've thought of Hamlet as "Oedipal" but there wouldn't have been a name that we could've given to understand the concept.
A fellow psychologist and colleague of Freud's, Ernest Jones (who would later write one of the first biographies of Freud) made the first connection of Hamlet as an Oedipal being in his 1949 work, Oedipus and Hamlet even though Freud had commented on the play in 1897.
Sources:
Jones. E (1949): Oedipus and Hamlet
Jones. E (1953-7): The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
Gay. P (1989): Freud: A Life For Our Time
Freud. S (1899, Eng Ed: 1913): Die Traumdeutung, The Interpretation of Dreams
Would you mind summarizing the Oedipal analysis of Hamlet, please?