Word: oedipuses
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...Oedipus Complex, a jolly dentist assures his patient he'll whip out a bad tooth "in a couple of shakes." He takes a couple of shakes; the tooth breaks. "So that's the game, is it?" crows the dentist, still merry as a grig. He assaults the tooth "with something like a buttonhook." Another piece breaks off. "We'll have to saw," cries the delighted dentist. While the tooth is sawed, button-hooked, drilled and shaken, the dentist, dropping his guard for an instant, admits to the patient that he (the dentist) has suffered hell...
...Drama Group met with Eliot tutors a few weeks ago, shortly after a program had been announced for next year that included "Oedipus Rex," Sheridan's "The Critic," "Henry IV," Parts I & II, Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and "Midsummer Night's Dream...
...Oedipus Rex" and "The Critic" will be given next fall as planned, but next week's meeting will decide on the rest of the program...
...Group, for example, last week announced a full slate of lower-case titles for its 1956-57 productions and completed casting for two of them. In time such farsighted acts may revolutionize the nature of over-the-summer planning at the College. Presumably, a late-April commitment to play Oedipus in October is more binding than an intention to take Humanities 2, as indicated on a preliminary study card...
...pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...