In the latter part of the story, the monster and Dymer are involved in an Oedipal struggle, and the father is killed.

Silicon Valley has developed a new twist to the old Oedipal struggle.

It was no Oedipal struggle.

What comes through vividly in Horowitz's memoirs is a fierce Oedipal struggle entwined with radicalism.

Freud, caught in his own Oedipal struggles, saw the unconscious as roiling with sexual and aggressive impulses.

Having no father I tried to capitalise (on his absence), resolve the Oedipal struggle,(create) good feelings.

Whether there can be a true 'Oedipal struggle' with a very sick, and then absent, father is a mute point.

So it's all these gender struggles, family struggles, Oedipal struggles.

Directing a major play is a kind of Oedipal struggle, I suppose.

Today his Oedipal struggle with the ideals of his forebears seems more quaint than shocking.