Examples of using Oedipus in English and their translations into Czech
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Kate, what do you think about Oedipus here?
And if it is… a really shitty fate, like Oedipus.
I have come to your town to speak with Oedipus, the king.
In Corinth, the inhabitants mean to elect Oedipus their king.
Oedipus was this guy who killed his dad.
Voldemort. You know, Oedipus, the Menendez brothers.
Itwas predicted that you, Oedipus, will kill your father.
Let me lend you a paper by Freud called the Oedipus Complex.
Come to hit me again? Young Oedipus.
I know who Oedipus was.
And you must be Oedipus Roy?
It is in the Oedipus Complex.
If Oedipus hadn't ruined it for all of us. We probably still would.
But how is writing my novel being like Oedipus?
I'm a 21st-century oedipus?
Actually, that sounds a little bit more like Electra than Oedipus.
So, I went to see that new Oedipus play last week.
You're my Oedipus Rex!
Suppressed Oedipus complex, leading to excessive guilt and overcompensation.
You got an Oedipus complex.