(1) While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.(2) The event in his life most frequently depicted in classical literature is neither parricide , nor incest, nor blinding, but exile - the least important event in King Oedipus, and therefore in Freud.(3) Recalling the unspecified horror of Robert Longo's ÔÇÿMen in the CityÔÇÖ series, Mull's 5-by-7-foot elegy to parricide , War and Peace, is pervaded by a sense of violence.(4) Freud emphasises parricide , both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.(5) Thus, the Oedipal version of parricide and incest conflates identification and difference; they meet at the crossroads, if you will.(6) The Fast Runner, the first feature made in the Inuit language, tells an ancient tale of how an evil spirit descended on a tribe, causing a blood feud that involved treachery, adultery, and parricide .(7) Roscius had much to be thankful for, since he was accused of parricide .(8) Whereas incest and parricide are the foretold destiny of Oedipus, that which causes his tragedy and Jocasta's destruction, here incest and parricide are by-products of the institution of slavery.(9) She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide .(10) In 1874, Dostoevsky began work on his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, his literary masterpiece of parricide that reflected and prophesized the death of the Tsar and in turn, traditional Russian society.(11) Now, when we see that in Rome the parricide was whipped with the red twigs of the cornel tree, an arbor infelix, the conclusion seems evident.(12) Eventually the narrative reaches its climax and the tantalizing underworld of desire and fear destroys itself in an orgiastic frenzy of voyeurism, a chase with guns, violence, and an Oedipal parricide .(13) Rape, incest, parricide , sacrilege, sodomy and tribadism, pedophilia and all the most horrible forms of torture and murder were associated with sexual arousal in the writings of Sade.(14) While the novel addresses a complex case of parricide , Brooks focuses on the one brother's desire to confess to the murder of his father when he did not, in fact, commit the murder.(15) Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ÔÇÿWhy did speech fail?ÔÇÖ(16) And Bacon did not allude to the tragic sequel - incest and parricide - as if his Oedipus has emerged triumphant, blessed by his wound and thereby bestowing blessings.
