List Of Oedipus Quotes

The Two Greatest Plays Ever Written Were Hamlet And Oedipus Rex, And They're Both About Father-son Relationships.

Plato Did Claim That The Unexamined Life Was Not Worth Living. Oedipus Rex Was Not So Sure.

Samoa Culture Demonstrates How Much The Tragic Or The Easy Solution Of The Oedipus Situation Depends Upon The Inter-relationship Between Parents And Children, And Is Not Created Out Of Whole Cloth By The Young Child's Biological Impulses.

It Is The Courage To Make A Clean Breast Of It In The Face Of Every Question That Makes The Philosopher.

What We Were Trying To Do Was Take The Notion Of Greek Tragedy, Of Fated And Doomed People, And Instead Of These Olympian Gods, Indifferent, Venal, Selfish, Hurling Lightning Bolts And Hitting People In The Ass For No Reason — Instead Of Those Guys Whipping It On Oedipus Or Achilles, It’s The Postmodern Institutions . . . Those Are The Indifferent Gods.

My Husband, Who's The Greatest Actor In The World, Can Do Anything. Look At What He Did In The Critic And Oedipus. In Every Role He Gets-he Did This In Richard The Third-there's Nothing He Can't Do, Nothing. Just Nothing.

The Population Question Is The Real Riddle Of The Sphinx, To Which No Political Oedipus Has As Yet Found The Answer. In View Of The Ravages Of The Terrible Monster Over-multiplication, All Other Riddle Sink Into Insignificance.

The Sexual Wishes In Regard To The Mother Become More Intense And The Father Is Perceived As An Obstacle To The; This Gives Rise To The Oedipus Complex.

I Got Oedipus Off The Incest Charge--technicality, Of Course--he Didn't Know It Was His Mother At The Time.

Does The Novel Have To Deepen The Psychology Of Its Heroes? Certainly The Modern Novel Does, But The Ancient Legends Did Not Do The Same. Oedipus' Psychology Was Deduced By Aeschylus Or Freud, But The Character Is Simply There, Fixed In A Pure And Terribly Disquieting State.

I Was Not Interested In Doing The Plot Of Oedipus In Blackface. I Did Wonder, What Would These People Have Been Like If They Hadn't Been In That Situation?... One Could Look At Oedipus, Or At My Character Augustus, As A Cynical Schemer Who Did Everything Because He Was Hungry For Power. But That's Just Too Easy. I'm More Interested In How Humans Can Embody Conflicting Goals And Emotions.

Psychoanalysts Are Bent On Producing Man Abstractly, That Is To Say Ideologically, For Culture. It Is Oedipus Who Produces Man In This Fashion And Who Gives A Structure To The False Movement Of Infinite Progression And Regression