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- adverb In a manner related to an
Oedipus complex . Adverb form ofoedipal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then he oedipally cleared his adoptive dad's desk of its typewriter, powered up his laptop and finished the work of Broadbent's ex-campaigning journalist – writing the muckraking tale of institutional sex abuse with its shocking subplot of how he was fathered by a rapist orderly at a mental home.
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Her shirt was open, revealing an appealing cleavage that spoke to me oedipally.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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When Penelope, clinging at age forty to a frayed strand of self-esteem, expressed a stubborn faith that "there was a man for her out there," Prozan intervened to convince her that the man in question was only her oedipally desired but long-dead father.
'Victims of Memory': An Exchange Albert, Carol 1995
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Most politicians, instinctively and oedipally, judge themselves against their illustrious forebears in this way.
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