Word: oedipus
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...their stride were sufficient to bowl neurotics over. The foundations of neuroses, Freud discovered, were laid in the sex experiences of early childhood. Upon this astonishing fact, which Freud painstakingly confirmed in hundreds of cases, he built his famous theories of the libido (Latin for lust) and the Oedipus complex...
Strawinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882. He has lived in Paris during the past twenty years. Among his best known works are "L'Oiseau de Feu," "Petrouchka," "Le sacre du Printemps," "L'Histoire du Soldat," "Oedipus Rex," and "Symphonie de Psaumes...
Macy's publicity reads as though he were selling some rare, internationally compounded medicine instead of reprinted classics. Printed all over the world, Limited Editions books include such native volumes as The Psalms of David, being printed in Palestine, Oedipus Rex, being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
Other concerts scheduled for early spring include one with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Mile. Nadia Boulanger directing on March 6; the Glee Club will sing Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," conducted by Stravinsky himself, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on March...
Very definitely Rebecca belongs not to the realistic but to the romantic tradition of the novel. As such it is not to be compared with Oedipus Rex (although most readers are likely to find it a good deal harder to lay down than Oedipus), but like Oedipus it is basically a horror story, and like Oedipus it unrolls forward and backward simultaneously, each new revelation of the past driving the story forward...