How To Use parricide In A Sentence
- 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: ‘Why did speech fail?’
- She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
- This shows us the reason why in mixed modes any of the ideas that make the composition of the complex one being left out or changed, it is allowed to be another thing, i.e. to be of another species, as is plain in chance-medley, manslaughter, murder, parricide, &c. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- 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.
- Both were executed, along with 52 others suspected of involvement in the machinations of Batz, dressed in red, the colour of parricide.
- Thus, the Oedipal version of parricide and incest conflates identification and difference; they meet at the crossroads, if you will.
- 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.
- In Wagner's opera Parsifal the trauma of parricide is there in the background, but is unconscious.
- For Livy this is how Romulus obtained “sole power” and how Rome was founded and named.91 Here too, fratricide succeeds parricide, since after their triumphant return Romulus and Remus had killed the tyrant, their granduncle, who had seized power from their grandfather more enemy brothers! Bloodlust
- In his opinion, they ought upon this occasion to follow the example of the ancient Romans, who, having no law against parricide, because their legislators supposed no son could be so unnaturally wicked as to embrue his hands in his father's blood, made a law to punish this heinous crime as soon as it was committed. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
