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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.
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.
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."
Spock's own simplistic Freudian perspective, with its emphasis on childhood Oedipal dramas and the wonders of sublimation, sounds more quaint every year.
Critics also like the way the story has been rewritten to add some psychological depth (it's now an Oedipal allegory).