Word: oedipuses
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...good man is hard to find, and intolerable to men and gods once he is found. The age of the anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in his short, cruelly focused first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, laughing con man and indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward...
That ultimate audience dwells some where between Malibu Beach and Despairsville, a spot where life is cursed by school trouble, girl and boy trouble and car trouble. When they climb out of the surf, the songs are addressed to such matters as poverty, suspicion, ill health and the Oedipus complex. Such numbers as Six Months with My Mother (Six Months with My Dad) are willing to go right into court in pursuit of genuine grief...
Before 1900 everything was simpler, Spock said. But people "inhibit themselves" by knowing about Oedipus complexes and the like, he added. He advised young parents--there were many of them in the audience--to reset a little less cautiously and somewhat more instinctively to their tots' extreme demands...
...love my mother."--Oedipus...
...vices it refuses to acknowledge in itself. Lulu's actual death is horrifying; she is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper in a London garret. At this event, Berg's music erupts in an agonizing holocaust of atonal sound, the musical equivalent of the howl of the blinded Oedipus...