Oedipus

Speech parts

1. Oedipus - Noun

2. Oedipus - Proper noun

Meaning

(Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles

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The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex. Sigmund Freud

Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, "Oedipal Complex." Alison Bechdel

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. Jasper Fforde

There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex, You may have heard about his odd complex. His name appears in Freud's index 'Cause he loved his mother. Tom Lehrer

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. Ayelet Waldman

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. Tom Robbins

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