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Example sentences for: oedipal

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Some kind of oedipal thing," he did not add.
Critics also like the way the story has been rewritten to add some psychological depth (it's now an Oedipal allegory).
An Oedipal permutation of this theory blames his affairs specifically on an early deficit of motherly attention and notes that many of his alleged lovers bear a resemblance to Virginia.
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.
The fact that your household has been just the two of you since he was 7 years old may mean that he's had to wrestle with his Oedipal feelings that his little-boy wish for his father to be removed was granted.