Both Uses of

Oedipus
in
The Mill on the Floss

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)
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.