Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glee Club this Fall will be the traditional concert with the Yale club the evening before the Yale game. The most ambitious Glee Club performances will be given in the Spring when they sing the annual Sanders Theatre concert and assist the Boston Symphony in Strawinsky's "Oedipus Rex" and Bach's B-minor Mass...
Strawinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882, but for more than twenty years lived in Paris. Among his best known works are: "L'Oiseau de Feu," "Potrouchka," "Lo Sacre du Printemps," "L'Histoire du Soldat," "Oedipus Rox," and "Symphonic dos Psaumes...
...prevalent Oedipus complex, broadened to encompass resentment of authority and pompous persons in high places, is betrayed by a number of limericks which demean the King of Siam, the King of Baroda, the Queen of Baroda and other dignitaries, public and private...
There is no escaping the Oedipus complex, said Freud, for it is our heritage from primitive ancestors, who killed their fathers in fits of jealous rage. "We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us," perceptively observed Oliver Wendell Holmes in his pre-Freudian novel The Guardian Angel...
Because they do not believe in the primacy of the Oedipus complex, a small group of analysts have seceded from the Freudian union. Some of them do not agree that men are bound by primeval, rigid instincts. Others hold that society inflicts more wounds upon personality than the sex instinct. For these rebels, orthodox Freudians, whose feelings run high, have nothing but contempt...