Word: ocdipus
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Gutwillig ascribed a different significance to "Ocdipus." "This is the first time that a member of the ARI--a company that is sitting in our laps--will work this closely with a student project...
...part because Levi-Strauss writes with a style that relies heavily on nuance, and in part because structuralism operates at so many different levels, it is difficult to sift out a central theme. Leach tries to clear the jumble by interpreting structurally, step by step, the Ocdipus myth and examples of kinship terminology. But finally he confuses his own idea of what structuralism means with Levi-Strauss's and one is left anxious to dive back into The Raw and the Cooked...
Still, Senelick's attempt to demystify Ocdipus sometimes goes beyond honesty and emotional integrity to intellectual eccentricity, even perversity. After an actor has recounted in nauseating detail how Ocdipus has just gouged out his eyes, the chorus begins to laugh, and then say things like "There's good luck and bad luck," or "that's fate, hahaha." In the final scene, after Ocdipus has stumbled blindly across the stage out the door the cast does a copulation mime that features a man with an enormous dildo and a woman with pubic hair drawn on her leotard. It is like...
...King Ocdipus will once again kill his father and marry his mother, and Prince Hamlet will be just as confused as he was the last time, as Professor Poggioli studies "Ideas of Tragedy" on Long fellow Terrace. Most of the other well-known victims of Fate and playwrights will appear too, in "Comparative Literature...
Speaking at Phillips Brooks House on the Socio-Psychological Problem of Alcoholism, Bales declared that the reason behind the craving for drink goes further than a palate with a high octane rating. strained family relations, with possibly an underlying ocdipus complex, and assorted worries all account for the alcohol addict...