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Oedipal [′ēd·ə·pəl] (psychology) Pertaining to the Oedipus complex. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| With Burnett revisiting the musical - now in the role of the fearsomely ghastly, Oedipal Queen Aggravain - it might've been nice if she'd introduce us to another promising young comedienne. This older generation of scholars, it is worth noting, tended to relate the South to its Theban prototype in a dual sense, since they insisted that the region was at once an inscrutable presence and one that held the answer to the deepest of riddles, waiting to be uncracked by those with Oedipal wisdom. Many of them consider an unprintable 12-letter word describing Oedipal intimacy to be "a term of endearment. |
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