Word: oedipus
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...inner psyche in an attempt to answer these elusive questions. He suggests that when searching for their mates, humans look for qualities that are most reminiscent and characteristic of the parent of the opposite sex. But to be blunt, I still can’t stomach the idea of Oedipus and his mother, let alone think of my father as a sexual being. And if I were ever to come into contact with the pickup line “you remind me of my mother,” I would choke on my drink and sprint in the opposite direction...
...history here. Another President Bush once, famously, promised no new taxes. George W. Bush has not only been assiduous about doing the opposite in office of what Bill Clinton did, but also the opposite of what George H.W. Bush did. On the tax issue, as on the Gulf War, Oedipus rules...
Nair took to the stage several times at the beginning of her Harvard career, starring in a South American version of Sophocles’ Antigone. In her first semester she won the Boylston Prize for her delivery of one of Jocasta’s speeches from Oedipus...
...ensuing calls from the superintendent—one after a janitor mistook Oedipus Jr.. number seven for a mouse and killed him; another when a fellow Leverett student captured one in his room—the party line was, “Hamsters? What hamsters?” Obviously, we knew nothing about...
...thought I was done. I donated Charlie’s tank to a recent Harvard graduate who was re-living the adventures of Oedipus with mice, and swore that I would never own another pet. I advised fellow students to do the same. Then my roommate found the internet...