Both Uses

Oedipus
in
The Mill on the Floss
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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.†
Chpt 1.13 *
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.†
Chpt 1.13

Definitions:

(1) (Oedipus)
Greek mythology: a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother; the subject of the drama Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Oedipus is seen in the phrase Oedipus complex coined by Sigmund Freud to describe what he saw as a desire by some children at ages 3 to 5 to want to sexually possess the parent of their opposite gender, and exclude the parent who shares their gender.