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How to use oedipal in a sentence

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She sees this oedipal view of creativity as unnecessarily reductionistic.
The idea for these edgy oedipal works came to Prince when he was looking through a catalogue of de Kooning's Women series.
Two decades of psychoanalytic film theory have shown us how to read these films as the working out of a particularly ambiguous oedipal fantasy, centred on the woman.
He knows how to be a narcissistic fighter and an oedipal fighter.
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.
The conflict between the two is more than an Oedipal conflict between father and son.
The Oedipal struggle only results in one dominant male being replaced by another.
Tom feels guilty because, in a tortured reversal of the Oedipal triangle, he hated his son.
It's there like the sets in an opera, a backdrop for acting out Oedipal fantasies and all sorts of Sturm und Drang.
Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.
Rather than openly contemplating patricide, shouldn't you be identifying with your father so as to accommodate your Oedipal impulses?
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.
On the other hand, there remains the issue of identification with the father, which brought to a close the Oedipal phase.
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.
There's more here than just adolescent resentment and Oedipal rage.
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.
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.
It was like an Oedipal thing because chevy left, and there was a feeling like he left them.
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.
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