Sentence examples for Oedipal from high-quality English sources.

• Ad Astra is a space movie with an Oedipal undertow.

• The Oedipal rivalries, fears, guilts are still operative.

• In an Oedipal twist, he then went on to destroy Lava Jato.

• His inaugural breakdown was triggered by the loss of his mother, in what is a strikingly Oedipal tale.

• “People have said that’s like an Oedipal scene,” she said.

• (Even Tipper Gore has joked about her husband's Oedipal complex.)

• “He’s in a relatively Oedipal stage and he’s all over me all the time.

• Nussbaum once wrote of Iris Murdoch that she “won the Oedipal struggle too easily.”

Use Oedipal in a sentence.

• This hesitation has fascinated critics, but none of the explanations offered, such as unconscious Oedipal…

• Strangely, I began to think of Barthes (whose relationship with his mother famously bordered on the Oedipal) as my grief buddy.

• When the successful young bandleader moves her into his home in Harlem, it signifies “the blatant realisation of Oedipal wishes”.

• Some of them pull us up short, as, for example, the Freudian recognition of Oedipal desires that come out only in dreams (571c–d).

• His turn against his erstwhile patron has something of an Oedipal quality, or perhaps “Paradise Lost”, with Mr Orban playing the rebellious angel.

• He concluded that distorted surface thoughts, rather than Freud’s long-buried childhood traumas and Oedipal desires, explained almost all emotional disorders.

• Not surprisingly, later analysts of female sexuality have paid more attention to the girl’s relations with the pre-Oedipal mother than to the vicissitudes of the Oedipus complex.

• Not surprisingly, later analysts of female sexuality have paid more attention to the girl’s relations with the pre-Oedipal mother than to the vicissitudes of the Oedipus complex.

Oedipal sentence examples

• Wayne and Clift played a father and his adopted son who are leading a cattle drive, and the Oedipal interplay between them had overtones of Frank Lloyd’s Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

• Friction between West and Drake has replaced friction between West and Jay-Z as hip-hop’s central Oedipal drama even if at this point the two are, for all intents and purposes, peers.

• Although in Israel most criticism of Oz comes from the right, he has been attacked from the left more and more in recent years as a younger generation enacts a kind of Oedipal battle against the founding generations.

• What distinguishes this Anglo-American tradition from the French-influenced one is its emphasis on pre-Oedipal sociality or intersubjectivity and its focus on the values of integration, harmony, and wholeness, as opposed to those of self-division and respecting the alien within.