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How to use Oedipal in a sentence

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Rather than openly contemplating patricide, shouldn't you be identifying with your father so as to accommodate your Oedipal impulses?
The first article was about the role of the Oedipal process in the generation of guilt and the repressive denial of the memory of murder.
It's there like the sets in an opera, a backdrop for acting out Oedipal fantasies and all sorts of Sturm und Drang.
The Oedipal struggle only results in one dominant male being replaced by another.
Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.
The Oedipal fantasy in the play and its realization in the life of the primal horde may be extended to a view of revolution in modern society.
Hans's zoophobia was related to the child's ambivalent attitude toward his father inherent in the Oedipal situation.
The result is an airless Oedipal drama, with a persistent and inescapable note of absurdity.
On the other hand, there remains the issue of identification with the father, which brought to a close the Oedipal phase.
Tom feels guilty because, in a tortured reversal of the Oedipal triangle, he hated his son.
The conflict between the two is more than an Oedipal conflict between father and son.
It was like an Oedipal thing because chevy left, and there was a feeling like he left them.
There's more here than just adolescent resentment and Oedipal rage.
The literature supports an Oedipal stage, but finds that a good superego is likely to come from a loving rather than a fearful relationship with a father.
We come now to the vexed questions of the Oedipus complex, childhood amnesia, and the so-called latency period, which is supposed to follow the Oedipal phase.
Almost instantly, he and his cartoon creation engage in a constantly table-turning Oedipal courtship.
O'Brien had Oedipal feelings about Joyce, and this conjuration momentarily steals the show.
The resolution of the Oedipal conflict between Horatio and his father, who had been promised Glorvina in marriage, points toward a restoration of the inheritance.
There is a faint squeak of the Electra complex here, which nicely complements the grunting Oedipal backchat between the two McClanes.
Nuri's Oedipal desire to banish the older man is seen through anguished hindsight, though it was Nuri who felt banished to boarding school.
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