All 18 Uses
Oedipus
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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- If Polybus hadn't taken in the young Oedipus, Sophocles wouldn't have written his most beautiful tragedy!†
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- It was a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.†
Chpt 4
- She walked over to the bookshelves and took down Sophocles'Oedipus.†
Chpt 4
- It was apparently with this in mind that he picked up a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.†
Chpt 5
- The story of Oedipus is well known: Abandoned as an infant, he was taken to King Polybus, who raised him.†
Chpt 5
- A quarrel arose, and Oedipus killed the dignitary.†
Chpt 5
- When Oedipus realized that he himself was the cause of their suffering, he put out his own eyes and wandered blind away from Thebes.†
Chpt 5
- It was in this connection that Tomas recalled the tale of Oedipus: Oedipus did not know he was sleeping with his own mother, yet when he realized what had happened, he did not feel innocent.†
Chpt 5
- It was in this connection that Tomas recalled the tale of Oedipus: Oedipus did not know he was sleeping with his own mother, yet when he realized what had happened, he did not feel innocent.†
Chpt 5
- Because Tomas found this question second-rate, he sat down one day, wrote down his reflections on Oedipus, and sent them to the weekly.†
Chpt 5
- But you've got to retract that article you wrote about Oedipus.†
Chpt 5
- It did not stop at a retraction of the Oedipus article.†
Chpt 5
- As if rewarding him for his decision, the editor said, That was a fine piece you wrote about Oedipus.†
Chpt 5
- What were these two trying to make him swallow, reducing his whole life to a single small idea about Oedipus or even less: to a single primitive no!†
Chpt 5
- No one could be more innocent, in his soul and conscience, than Oedipus.†
Chpt 5
- The myth of Oedipus is a beautiful one, but treating it like this....He had more to say, but suddenly he remembered that the place might be bugged.†
Chpt 5
- Yes, that was why he had picked up the book and gone back to the stories of Romulus, Moses, and Oedipus.†
Chpt 5
- The Oedipus article had been forgotten.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(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
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(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.