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Example sentences for: oedipus

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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."
Were Oedipus alive today he might offer the same solution to the riddle.
The hypothetical modern Oedipus might join some humans of both genders who carp at the most radical-seeming alterations of the language.
Hercules, after all, is not a tragic hero like Oedipus or Prometheus."
“When you say Man,” said Oedipus, “you include woman too.