Word: oedipus
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Sophocles: Oedipus...
Tonight at 9 o'clock the Harvard Radio Workshop will present Yeats' prose translation of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" over the Crimson Network. F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Allen Clark '18 have adapted the work for radio and assisted in its production...
...started the fire that killed my father. . . . His drinking brought sorrow to my mother." After two more days of questioning, he smoothed his red hair and added: "I might as well tell you the whole story." He had killed his mother too. Said Courtney Rogers: "I had an Oedipus complex." No one was much surprised when he confessed that he had given his grandmother arsenic: "It was my first venture" (TIME, March...
...interpretations of Holmes's words sometimes seem farfetched. But in the light of Freudian psychiatry many of Holmes's aphorisms assume striking new meanings: e.g., "The woman a man loves is always his own daughter." The autocrat of the breakfast table, says Oberndorf, well understood the Oedipus and other complexes...
...back room of the neighborhood bar. He demanded a sip of beer from each glass. . . . He would go from customer to customer asking for sips and begging for nickels to play Margie in the jukebox (Margie was his mother's name)." His trouble, according to the doctor: an oedipus complex which caused him to imitate his mother. He forgot all about drinking after two months in an institution...