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Also planned is a play by Louis Eno '44 based on the parallel between the Pelloponesian war and the present conflict, and a series of adaptations of great plays, starting with "Oedipus Rex," which will probably be given two weeks after the series opens...
...childhood, he wanted her money, his father mistreated her and he wanted to put her out of her pain. After she fell asleep one night, Courtney had dropped chloroform on a wad of cotton which he held over her nose until she died. Said Courtney calmly: "I had an Oedipus complex...
...least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator of Shakespeare. Richard Aldington's The Viking Book of Poetry ($3.50) was the year's best anthology...
Obvious to amateur Freudians is the fact that Gino had an Oedipus complex, was in love with his mother. He was prudish toward girls, shied away from sex experience. But, contrary to Freud's definition, he did not consider his father a rival-in fact he identified himself with him as the head of the family, and had the same feelings as a jealous husband...
...mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...