Despite his intellectual defenses, his Oedipal feelings subtly shaped his choice of partners.

The director's oedipal themes threaded through the film like a dark, persistent current.

He spoke oedipally about his conflicted feelings toward his mother, surprising everyone in the therapy group.

Oedipally, he often mistook his mother's concern for romantic interest and felt both guilty and fascinated.

The director chose to oedipalize the protagonist's relationship with his mentor to heighten the film's psychological tension.

By constantly comparing himself to his father, he was oedipalizing his feelings toward his mother without realizing it.

The protagonist oedipalizes his relationship with his father, unknowingly competing for his mother's attention.

The analyst oedipalized the child's clinginess, interpreting it as rooted in an unresolved Oedipus complex.

The case report described a rare instance of oedipism in a patient with severe psychosis.