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Example sentences for: oedipal

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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."
Critics also like the way the story has been rewritten to add some psychological depth (it's now an Oedipal allegory).
A "cold, contemptuous, and interminable Oedipal saga," says the Village Voice 's J. Hoberman, "just a big, static snooze."
Spock's own simplistic Freudian perspective, with its emphasis on childhood Oedipal dramas and the wonders of sublimation, sounds more quaint every year.
The target of my skepticism has been psychodynamic therapy, whereby the patient's manifestly perceived problems, beliefs, and feelings are treated as mere "compromise formations" tossed to the surface by deep turmoil that can only be resolved by dredging for repressed memories, Oedipal cravings, and the like.