Oedipal Quotes

#1. A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

Wendy Wasserstein

#2. my parents Oedipal fakers

Lidia Yuknavitch

#3. The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.

Donna J. Haraway

#4. In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

John Maus

#5. The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.

Michael Lewis

#6. Luckily, I am writing a memoir and not a work of fiction, and therefore I do not have to account for my grandmother's unpleasing character and look for the Oedipal fixation or the traumatic experience which would give her that clinical authenticity that is nowadays so desirable in portraiture.

Mary McCarthy

#7. I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

Nathalie Sarraute

#8. Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

Frank Pittman

#9. Fury ... sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal ... drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths

Salman Rushdie

#10. A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.

John Updike

#11. In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Karen Russell

#13. I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

Shirley Hazzard

#14. That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

Marian Wright Edelman

#15. I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Laura Marling

#16. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus

#17. Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

Thomas Middleditch

#18. Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

James C. Collins

#19. War is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.

John Steinbeck

#20. I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

Bradford Cox

#21. Trout was deflated - neutralized. He dropped his arms, became child-like now.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here."
But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

William Faulkner

#23. The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.

Thomm Quackenbush

#24. She's buying sex toys now, you know. Sex toys for herself. Where the hell does that leave me? Have you ever seen a Vagazzler? That thing can give her an orgasm and then make her a Frappuccino. I can't compete with that. I don't know how to make a Frappuccino.

Tracy Brogan

#25. I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Benjamin Moser