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I've never met a psychiatrist clumsy enough to use the words "Oedipal conflict" with a patient, let alone to explain it by invoking Sophocles, but this dumb bit is worth it to watch De Niro blanch, shake his head in disgust at the thought of Oedipus and his mom, and exclaim, "Fuckin' Greece."
A "cold, contemptuous, and interminable Oedipal saga," says the Village Voice 's J. Hoberman, "just a big, static snooze."
Plus, I worry that this ever so slightly Oedipal situation is going to get in the way of his commitment to me.
In 1974, he exhibited a series of deathbed portraits of his father, a New York clothing retailer, which struck many viewers (including Avedon's son) as an act of unchecked Oedipal hostility.
The Fox panel has fun with Time 's report that the Gore campaign had been paying feminist celebrity Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month (laundered through a faceless consultant agency) to advise the candidate on his wardrobe and on his Oedipal relationship with Clinton, among other things.