Oedipal

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• King is also a photographer, and if at first it seems that Morningstar plays out a simple Oedipal drama for the author, the character's role and its relation to the author become more complex when Morningstar is driven in disgrace from the Festival for representing Native life photographically.

  Academic text (2014)

• The Oedipal tenor of Picabia's Dada production

  Academic text (2003)

• Oh, and another example would be Beauty and the Beast, a female Oedipal story.

• Indian psychoanalysts' work on the Oedipal theme became more complicated when they left the literary level and described the actual family situation.

  Academic text (1990)

• And after recounting these Oedipal dramas, one would describe the special role of the young dancers.

  Academic text (1999)

• Mine is a girl and hers is a boy—funny, do you think that whole Oedipal thing was just made up?

  Blog text (17)

• Jones also shows how Oedipal myth pervades Kerouac's nonfiction text and poetry as well.

  Academic text (2000)

• Jones argues that Kerouac's obsession with his family reflects Oedipal themes throughout the Duluoz Legend.

  Academic text (2000)

• Further, one would have to conclude from their criticism that the development of personality structures, dispositions, or traits appears to end somewhere between the ages of six years and the early preteen years when adolescents recover from their Oedipal yearnings; somehow, adulthood is largely exempt from significant structural change.

  Academic text (1990)

• The play delves into Oedipal dynamics, highlighting the ways family ties can create tension and conflict.

Compounds

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Oedipal complex

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A child's strong sexual feelings for a parent of the opposite sex and anger toward the same-sex parent

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology