Word: oedipus
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...Flesch adds, U.S. educators by and large refuse to recognize the word method's shortcomings. Reading failures are merely blamed on "poor eyesight ... or a broken home ... or an Oedipus complex or sibling rivalry...
...George as I shall be of your father," and only the audience knows that George is Michael's father; and partly also from a simple exaggeration of emotions, as in the opening scene, when Yvonne's possessiveness and then Michael's naivete combine in a virtual parody of the Oedipus complex...
...Freud himself found it necessary to postulate a kind of original sin," he said, referring to the father-slaying, mother-marrying impulses of the Oedipus complex. "Man does, in fact, belong to a guilty race, and that by inheritance...
...French, as usual, made a handful of fine, original films. Jean Cocteau sent over, in Intimate Relations, what amounts to a formal photograph of an Oedipus complex: a devilish picture, devilishly well made. By contrast there was a flash of the old gaite parisienne in Beauties of the Night, by Rene Clair; and Jacques Tad, in Mr. Hulot's Holiday, composed something like a ballet of pratfalls. In Diary of a Country Priest, adapted from the novel by Georges Bernanos, the camera watched a body dissolve in spirit, while in Pit of Loneliness the spirit of a feeling woman...
...homosexual cook at the Bear Flag who is writing a novel called The Pi Root of Oedipus...