Word: oedipuses
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...allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother. She rarely smiles...
...caused by specific chemical imbalances. Those who suffer from them are racked not by toilet-training traumas or the "unceasing terror and tension of the fetal night" (as an early psychoanalyst put it) but by something as simple--and complex--as an imperfectly mixed chemical cocktail. The Oedipus complex has been reduced to a matter of molecules...
...Ebola-like, from Burbank to Broadway. But while Nicky Silver gives in too often to the temptation of cheap laughs, topical references and ironic mugging, the play is ultimately redeemed from its worst moments by a clever and genuinely surprising treatment of sexuality and its most famous pitfall, the Oedipus complex...
...time the final scenes show us Bishop undergoing psychoanalysis in a mental hospital, we realize what has been building all along: the whole play is an allegory for male sexual development, with each stage of the classic Oedipus complex brought to life in gory detail. Bishop on the couch, caught between infantile mother-love and the prospect of a more mature sexual relationship, is the play's real setting...
Togas, masks, Oedipus making out with Jocasta. Hysterical? Allen only wishes...