Let he who is without sin cast the first plucked-out orb of Oedipal horror.
And was it a steely act of oedipal severance?
Much of Schiele's short life was punctuated by recurring acts of Oedipal rebellion.
For decades, Roth's heroes were, paradigmatically, sons in the throes of Oedipal revolt.
It might be a fantasy of the father he never knew by an orphan who himself imaginatively fathered countless children in epic tales of Oedipal anxiety.
Jonathan Pryce's splendidly dangerous Prince internalised his father's ghost, hawking up its speeches as though the victim of Oedipal possession.
In her well-written, scholarly catalog essay, Ms. Balken does not succumb, but the story she tells is certainly one of Oedipal conflict.
Psychological and psychoanalytic critics such as Ernest Jones have explored questions of character in terms of Oedipal complexes, narcissism, and psychotic behaviour or, more simply, in terms of the conflicting needs in any relationship for autonomy and dependence.
Some of them pull us up short, as, for example, the Freudian recognition of Oedipal desires that come out only in dreams (571c-d).
"There is an element of Oedipal revolt in every father-son relationship, including the relationship between me and my father".
