Oedipus

in a sentence

Oedipus, Paris.†  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

The most famous one is the tragedy of King Oedipus.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress.†  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Oedipus?†  (source) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

It was a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.†  (source) Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984

You never heard of Oedipus?†  (source) J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, 1995

Some years later, Susan would tell him the story of Oedipus, and he would absorb it in quiet thoughtfulness, thinking of the odd and bloody triangle formed by his father, his mother, and by Marten-known in some quarters as the good man.†  (source) Stephen King, The Gunslinger, 1981

That strikes me as an unfair attempt to invoke the spirit of Sigmund Freud: Oedipus and Electra in one being, out to destroy all its parents, the authors of every one of its tensions, anxieties, hang-ups, burned into its impressionable psyche at a young and defenseless age.†  (source) Roger Zelazny, My Name is Legion, 1976

This is the way from Oedipus to Hamlet.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

Find Einhorn in a serious mood when his fatty, beaky, noble Bourbon face was thoughtful, and he'd give you the lowdown on the mechanical age, and on strength and frailty, and piece it out with little digressions on the history of cripples—the dumbness of the Spartans, the fact that Oedipus was lame, that gods were often maimed, that Moses had faltering speech and Dmitri the Sorcerer a withered arm, Caesar and Mahomet epilepsy, Lord Nelson a pinned sleeve—but especially on the machine age and the kind of advantage that had to be taken of it; with me like a man-at-arms receiving a lecture from the learned signor who felt like passing out discourse.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

Carol was ready to say, "How about Bernard Shaw?" when he treacherously went on, "How would it be then to give a Greek drama—say 'Oedipus Tyrannus'?"†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920

And suppose he tackled me again with this logomachy, which might vainly have been set before ancient Oedipus.†  (source) Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1877

Mr. Tulliver had a destiny as well as Oedipus, and in this case he might plead, like Oedipus, that his deed was inflicted on him rather than committed by him.†  (source) George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Cust is saddled apparently by the whim of his mother-(Oedipus complex there, I shouldn't wonder!)  (source) Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders, 1936

At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl and taken to play at the big table in the Jockey Club at Buenos Aires; he dined with Proust and Gide and was on closer terms with Cocteau and Diaghilev; Firbank sent him his novels with fervent inscriptions; he had aroused three irreconcilable feuds in Capri; by his own account he had practiced black art in Cefalit and had been cured of drug-taking in California and of an Oedipus complex in Vienna.  (source) Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944

…the desired but forbidden mother (Oedipus complex) whose presence is a lure to dangerous desire (castration complex)—persists in the hidden land of the adult's infant recollection and is sometimes even the greater force.  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949