Quotes Tagged With :oedipus

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

It is not by means of a metaphor that a banking or stock-market transaction, a claim, a coupon, a credit,....

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be....

...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had one....

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death.....

Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between....

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make....

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk....