28 April, 2016 (Week 10)
1. Oedipus complex 戀母情結
(*science)
The term Oedipus complex (or, less commonly, Oedipal complex) explains the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrates upon a child's desire to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex.
→ Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, (ca. 1805).
① Background
Oedipus refers to a 5th-century BC Greek mythological character Oedipus, who unwittingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta. A play based on the myth, Oedipus Rex, was written by Sophocles, ca. 429 BC.
Electra complex 戀父情結
In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.
→ Electra at the *Tomb of Agamemnon, by Frederic Leighton, c.1869
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2. -itis: an illness or infection that effects a particular part of your body (身體某部分的)炎症、發炎
① Bronchitis (n.) an illness which affects your bronchial tubes and make you cough 支氣管炎
② Gastritis (n.) an illness which makes the side of your stomach become swollen, so that you feel a burning pain 胃炎
③ Sinusitis (n.) a condition in which your sinuses swell up and become painful 鼻竇炎
3. Piano (text)
By D.H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
1918
4. Kiss the Girl (From "The Little Mermaid)
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