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Oedipus
Oedipus , in Greek legend, son of Laius, king of Thebes, and his wife, Jocasta. Laius had been warned by an oracle that he was fated to be killed by his own son; he therefore abandoned Oedipus on a mountainside. The baby was rescued, however, by a shepherd and brought to the king of Corinth, who... Read more |
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Oedipus complex
Oedipus complex Freudian term, drawn from the myth of Oedipus , designating attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own. It occurs during the phallic stage of the psycho-sexual development of the personality,... Read more |
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Ismene
Ismene , in Greek legend, daughter of Oedipus and sister of Antigone.... Read more |
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Parricide
PARRICIDE "Murder of the father" is a reference to the murder of the legendary king of Thebes by Oedipus, the Greek hero in Sophocles' play Oedipus Tyrannus (King Oedipus). According to Freud, we were all, as young children, gripped by the "compulsion" embodied in the Greek legend: we were all,... Read more |
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Creon
Creon , a name given to several minor legendary Greek kings. In the legend of Oedipus, Creon is the brother of Jocasta and after the death of Oedipus' sons becomes king of Thebes. In Euripides' Medea, Creon is the king of Corinth and is murdered by the vengeful Medea. Apollodorus portrays him as... Read more |
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Laius
Laius in Greek mythology, a king of Thebes, husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus, of whom it was prophesied that he would be killed by his own son. Laius accordingly ordered that the child should be exposed, but Oedipus was rescued and brought up in ignorance of his birth. When a man, he met... Read more |
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Antigone
Antigone , in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. In Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, she and her sister Ismene follow their father into exile at Colonus. When her brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed each other in the war of the Seven against Thebes , Creon, King of Thebes, forbade... Read more |
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Remorse
554. Remorse (See also Regret.) Ayenbite of Inwit (Remorse of Conscience ) Middle English version of medieval moral treatise, c. 1340. [Br. Lit.: Barnhart, 74] Deianira commits suicide out of remorse for unwittingly having killed husband, Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 709] Hermione ... Read more |
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irony
irony figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement. Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she... Read more |
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Nuclear Complex
NUCLEAR COMPLEX The expression "nuclear complex" was first used by Sigmund Freud to designate what he would later call the "Oedipus complex." While still signifying from a genetic or structural point of view the universal Oedipus complex, the notion of the nuclear complex came to be used in the... Read more |
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Oedipus
Oedipus In Greek mythology and literature, son of Laius (king of Thebes) and...Ismene, Eteocles and Polynices by his own mother. Sophocles told how Oedipus was saved from death as an infant and raised in Corinth. He inadvertently... |
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Oedipus complex
Oedipus complex In psychoanalytic theory, a collection of unconscious wishes involving sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex... |
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Sophocles
...c.442–441), the Trachiniae, Oedipus the King (c.429), Electra, Philoctetes (409), and Oedipus at Colonus (written at the end of his...individuals against a background of crisis—Oedipus the King is set in a city ravaged by plague... |
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Minotis, Alexis
...London during the 1966 World Theatre Season, playing Oedipus to the Jocasta of his wife Katina Paxinou in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Talthybius to her Hecuba in Euripides' Hecuba, and Oedipus again in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. From 1967... |
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Classic Greek Drama in America
...stage in 1800, as was a production of the Oedipus myth by 1834. However, the stories were...to have offered the first professional Oedipus Rex in New York in 1911. Notable modern...included Lysistrata in 1930, the Old Vic's Oedipus Rex, featuring Olivier, in 1946, and... |
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McCormick, F. J.
...and Jack Clitheroe in The Plough and the Stars (1926), all by Sean O'Casey; Oedipus in Yeats's versions of Sophocles' Oedipus the King (1928) and Oedipus at Colonus (1934), and the leading role in The King of the Great Clock Tower... |
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psychoanalytic criticism
...psychoanalysis (the unconscious, repression, the Oedipus complex, etc.) in order to illuminate...debts to the poets, and his theory of the Oedipus complex is itself a sort of commentary...wishes, in a perfect illustration of the Oedipus complex. A comparable exercise is ... |
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metamorphosis
...do not, however, serve to sanction it in real life. The Oedipus myth, with its central character unwittingly killing his father...can happen if social boundaries are crossed. The fact that Oedipus puts out his own eyes when he ‘sees’ the truth is only... |
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Murray, Sir (George) Gilbert Aimé
...Kingsway. The Alcestis and the Rhesus have had only amateur productions. Murray also translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus, and Aeschylus' the Oresteia, the Suppliant Women, Prometheus Bound, the Persians, and... |
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Freud, Sigmund
...become universally familiar in a vulgarized form, e.g. the Oedipus complex, the death wish, the family romance, penis envy, phallic...considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex. L. Strachey, in Elizabeth and Essex (1928... |
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Oedipus
Oedipus in Greek mythology, the son of Jocasta and of Laius...that he would be killed by his own son, the infant Oedipus was saved by a shepherd. Returning eventually to Thebes, Oedipus solved the riddle of the sphinx, but unwittingly... |
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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex (King Oedipus). Opera-oratorio in 2 acts by Stravinsky to lib. by J. Cocteau trans. into Lat. by J. Daniélou and based on Sophocles. Comp. 1926–7. Prod. Paris 1927 (as oratorio), London 1928 (broadcast), 1936... |
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Oedipus complex
Oedipus complex (ee-dip-ŭs) n. in Freudian theory, repressed sexual feelings of a child for its opposite-sexed parent, combined... |
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Ismene
Ismene ♀ Borne in classical mythology by a daughter of Oedipus. After Oedipus has blinded himself on discovering that he has killed his father and that Jocasta is not only his wife but also his mother, Ismene deserts her father, while Antigone... |
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Laius
...mythology, a king of Thebes, husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus, of whom it was prophesied that he would be killed by his...accordingly ordered that the child should be exposed, but Oedipus was rescued and brought up in ignorance of his birth. When... |
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campus
...grampus, hippocampus, pampas •metacarpus, streptocarpus •trespass • Priapus • Lepus •Aristippus, Lysippus •Olympus • Oedipus • platypus •pompous •corpus, porpoise •Canopus, opus •lupus, upas •compass, encompass, rumpus •octopus •multipurpose... |
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compass
...grampus, hippocampus, pampas •metacarpus, streptocarpus •trespass • Priapus • Lepus •Aristippus, Lysippus •Olympus • Oedipus • platypus •pompous •corpus, porpoise •Canopus, opus •lupus, upas •compass, encompass, rumpus •octopus •multipurpose... |
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corpus
...grampus, hippocampus, pampas •metacarpus, streptocarpus •trespass • Priapus • Lepus •Aristippus, Lysippus •Olympus • Oedipus • platypus •pompous •corpus, porpoise •Canopus, opus •lupus, upas •compass, encompass, rumpus •octopus •multipurpose... |
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Œdipe
Œdipe (Oedipus). Opera in 4 acts by Enescu to lib. by E. Fleg based on Sophocles. First sketches 1910, comp. 1921/2–1932. Orch. extracts perf. 1924 and 1925. Prod. Paris 1936, Brussels 1956, Bucharest 1958. |
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Friedrich, Götz
...1974–6 and 1989–91). Prod. f.p. Berio's Un Re in Ascolto (his Salzburg Fest. début, 1984), Rihm's Oedipus, Berlin 1987. USA début prod. Wozzeck (Houston 1982). An avowed Marxist, his political leanings are reflected in his... |
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Oedipus meets Freud.(Reviews)(An intriguing new Frank Galati play at the...
...Foot" and "Doctor Soothsayer," but Oedipus Rex and Sigmund Freud need each other...a primal mystery in Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex," which had its world premiere...at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As Oedipus says to Freud in their first encounter... |
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Oedipus Rex - Sophocles' masterpiece tragedy.
...came seeing, blind shall he go...' (Oedipus Rex, Sophocles) Aristotle (384-322BC) described Oedipus Rex as a masterpiece and used it as an...These were written in brilliant verse Oedipus Rex was written in 429BC and till now... |
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Oedipus Rex: Fate, Truth and Self-will/OEDIPUS REX : DESTIN, VERITE, ENTETEMENT
Abstract: The myth of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex is revolved on the three interactive...the meaning of fate that God bestows to Oedipus in his endeavor of truth seeking. What...it is the sentimental self-will of Oedipus that makes the play distinguished from other... |
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OEDIPUS STEPPING DOWN FROM WBCN POST
...After 29 years at WBCN-FM (104.1), Oedipus announced yesterday he was retiring as...rock station - one he held for 23 years. Oedipus will remain with WBCN's parent company...be different without Mel at the top," Oedipus said yesterday by phone of Karmazin... |
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Oedipus wrecked: Freud's theory of frustrated incest goes on the defensive....
Poor Oedipus Rex. Twice he has achieved royal status...century B.C. Greek dramatist Sophocles, Oedipus triumplhantly ascended to the throne of...killed his father and married his mother, Oedipus gouged out his own eyes. Much later... |
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Did Oedipus Have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder?
...great puzzles about Sophocles' play, Oedipus Tyrannus, is that the prophecy around...seemingly has no basis. Likewise puzzling is Oedipus' many character flaws, least of which...conceived by a drunken father. Key Words: Oedipus; mythology; deformity; drunkenness... |
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'Oedipus Plays': An Olympian View of Greek Tragedy
...the temple. Be prepared to dwell awhile. "The Oedipus Plays," which opened last night at the Shakespeare...Rudall, has strung three Sophocles tragedies ("Oedipus Rex," "Oedipus at Colonus," "Antigone") together into a single... |
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Oedipus Complex.(Theater review)
...one act adapted by Frank Galati from "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles, translated by...MIN. Freud, Priest of Zeus Nick Sandys Oedipus Ben Viccellio Kreon Roderick Peeples Teiresias...dramatically languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean... |
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Oedipus Rex - Sophocles' masterpiece tragedy
...came seeing, blind shall he go...' (Oedipus Rex, Sophocles) Aristotle (384-322BC) described Oedipus Rex as a masterpiece and used it as an...These were written in brilliant verse Oedipus Rex was written in 429BC and till now... |
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Reading Loewald: Oedipus reconceived
Loewald's 'Waning of the Oedipus complex' is a watershed paper in the...Loewald's reconceptualization of the Oedipus complex. The principal elements of...originality lies at the core of the Oedipus complex; 2) the notion that oedipal... |
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