Word: oedipus
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...difficult for two people to fix themselves at the same point on this scale of conversation levels. But there is another dimension to communication, where mutuality is almost impossible to achieve, he said. That is intimacy, an "ultimate intimacy not obtained by shared confessions of guilts, ambitions, Oedipus complexes, or secrets," but a mental unification analogous to sexual intercourse, a joining of thought processes so total that the listener could just as easily be the speaker. In short one gets inside the other's head...
...Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek and two carminative political satires by young...
...television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only a cut above those delivered in Hollywood psychodramas of the 1940s in which a white-coated mental hygienist resolved the plot with a five-minute dissertation on the Oedipus complex...
When a tragic hero is blinded, he assumes the grandeur of Oedipus; when a comic hero is blinded, he becomes as ludicrous as a mole. Moliere, the most serious writer of comedy who ever lived, took just such a blind mole and made him the mock hero of The Miser. Harpagon (Robert Symonds) has a singular obsession-money. Like most obsessions, it is not magnificent but malignant. It allows the great 17th century French dramatist to make a central moral point-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Harpagon is blind to his children's hope...
...general thesis that the Dunbars and Savios of this world are not really concerned with butter or student-faculty ratios or even free speech. They are simply acting out their hostility toward Father. Student movements, as Feuer sees them, are history's proof of the Oedipus complex...