Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuff of a corporate soap opera, created by Norman Lear (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) in collaboration with Sophocles (Oedipus Rex). A crusty entrepreneur single-mindedly builds his obscure shoe company into a billion-dollar conglomerate. He turns it over to his son. The young executive discovers that without drastic reorganization the whole empire could topple. His father fiercely disagrees. Finally, the company's board gives the younger man the power to dismantle much of the corporate structure his father had put together. While the old man watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable...
...saying, for instance, "I still believed my mother the most beautiful, sexy, intelligent woman I'd ever met, and I was determined to recapture her wonderful love, but not at the price of my daddy's respect." It sounds like something out of a textbook on the Oedipus Complex...
...from the stereotypic, psychiatric construct of mild-mannered, repressed, impotent homosexuals with an Oedipus complex, they are better understood as brutalized, violence-prone men who act out their raging hatred against the world through an object offering the least amount of physical resistance, a woman's body...
...Oedipus Rex. Sophocles' classic. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston, Boston, through November 13. Performances Friday-Sunday, 8 p.m., Sunday matinee...
...discussing the Oedipus complex, for instance, he assumes that the crucial element in Freud's childhood was his deep shame when he learned that his father had meekly endured an anti-Semitic insult on the streets of Vienna. Thereafter, Freud is bent on vengeance -"He will unmask these goyim" by putting the offending Gentiles on the analyst's couch. The problem is not that Cuddihy's theories are preposterous, but that he has left too much out of his calculations - most notably the vast clinical experience that Freud always refers to in his speculative essays...