The almost magical esteem in which he was held by the acting community fed the rage, which verged on the Oedipal.

NEWYORKER: Method Man

Only a Freudian analyst instructed in the supposedly universal conflicts of human sexuality and domestic life (the Oedipal complex, etc.) could decode and disentangle them.

WSJ: DSM-5: A Manual Run Amok

Along with the invincibly pretentious and the implacably turgid, the Oedipal blather and the digital bats, "Batman Begins" summons up moments of great eloquence and power.

WSJ: Holy Melancholy, 'Batman'!

We all know that a father's influence on an adolescent girl is paramount but rarely is this Oedipal theme so vividly illustrated, even on a tennis court.

ECONOMIST: Ball babes