parricidal

But by and large our poetry is surprisingly free of parricidal obsession.

When the two encounter each other face to face, the King throws himself at his son's feet, expecting the parricidal prophecy to be fulfilled.

Look, my father was describing me as 'the parricidal vision from the loin' while I was still in my mother's womb."

He had been meditating on the parricidal theme which runs through Dymer since he was a pupil of Kirkpatrick's.

As much as of shrewdness or good intentions, the launching of The New York Times was an act of parricidal rage.

But what was true of the beginnings of human culture is still true today, and it seems that much in modern society can be understood as reflecting just such a parricidal, antagonistic and regressive trend.

Elected to the National Assembly of France, he retired from Bordeaux, where it sat, with Henri Rochefort and others until such time as the so-called "parricidal" vote for peace should be annulled.

She had, God knew, slapped her children more than once when they deviated from her standard of perfection, but when she saw those stains she felt a stirring of warmth for the parricidal bones in the next room.

Fundamentally, such protests against the cultural surrogates of the parents arise from the same origin as the assault on boundaries, standards and restraints - the parricidal resentment against the father's sexual rights over the mother which results from the failure to resolve the Oedipal conflict.

Yet the judgment was nearly universal, from the nation's embattled educa-tors to Richard Nixon: permissiveness had not reproduced a reliable citizenry, but a generation of vipers - portrayed in the horror films of the late 60's and 70's as parricidal monsters and demon children.

And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch, so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare.