After reading some of Freud's insights on dreams and jealous children with subconscious killer ideas, I find myself speechless. I never considered killing any of my siblings, even when the stork first brought them. Hamlet doesn't have any siblings we know of, so any possible death with must be applied to his uncle. We do not know of any of Hamlet's dreams (at least in the sleeping-experience sense), and yet we could reconstruct what they would be like, according to his emotions as analyzed by Freud. If Hamlet we to have a dream, which the audience would witness, it would probably involve a weeping, scantily-clothed Hamlet, surrounded by laughing courtiers. The next scene would include Hamlet crying over the death of his uncle, which, as Freud would put it, is a "counter-wish" that tends to imply a secret. Conflictingly so, Hamlet" secret wish to end his uncle's life doesn't seem to torture him, but makes him but maniacally determined, at least in the second half of the play.
One way or another, Hamlet's desire to purge his uncle from his life is not spurred by jealousy, but by objective outrage. Because of this, I can't think of any of Hamlet's dreams that could be considered completely typical, in the Freudian sense of the term.
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