Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason is that Americans, particularly those of the college-educated middle class, are likely to see themselves in terms of popular psychological abstractions rather than as products of specific educational, religious and vocational realities. Psychology is, after all, more democratic: even an Ivy League Episcopal banker can have an Oedipus complex...
Harris's approach tends to be thematic rather than strictly chronological. Thus chapters focus on such topics as "The Origins of War" or "The Origins of Male Supremacy and the Oedipus Complex," and "The Hydraulic Trap." One cannot help but admire the conviction with which Harris explains these phenomena. It is as if, although aware of the piranhas infesting the river, Harris nevertheless struck out on his own across one of those swaying rope bridges so apt to collapse without warning. Indeed, Harris's writing is refreshingly free of the usual academese infestations of "Perhaps" and "It may well...
...name of art and sensitivity. See Reed groan and growl with animalistic desires. See the abused Jackson run off with a scrawny but spiritual switch-hitter. See Bates act like a blubbering booby as he tries to convince Reed to reciprocate in a partnership of Platonic love. Art, my Oedipus complex. More like a "Dick and Jane" for voyeurs...
Neurotic families are much more interesting than normal ones--at least on stage. A good mix of Oedipal tangles, money, repressed anger, dark power plays, and a pinch or two of insanity ought to guarantee an enthralling evening, right? After all, the recipe worked for Oedipus and Hamlet...
...young," explains Punch-and the motto NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. Not for her, anyway. She traveled to China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined. The matriarch rarely interferes in Arthur's affairs. "Sons either have an Oedipus complex about their mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what I think." She did protest a story about sex at Barnard College, her alma mater. "It was an unfortunate piece of publicity...