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Zahhāk thus became both patricidal and king at the same time.

Ken, like Christy, is idolized for his apparently patricidal act.

He was here to vent a patricidal grudge.

I suddenly had a queasy feeling-I didn't want to be the vehicle of some sick patricidal kid's suicide.

It was patricidal performance art.

She was struggling with the urge to kill her father, though this diary entry does not state the reason why she was patricidal.

The patricidal Dawlya succeeded him.

I'm not suggesting that Mr. Mayerson has any such readings in mind in his embracingly patricidal art.

The States General indignant at this patricidal conduct applied to France for aid, according to the stipulations of the treaty concluded with her in 85.

With my son I plead not, seeing his praise in arms dispraised For ever, and his deeds of truth undone By patricidal treason.

Beatty himself recalled the episode: "In some patricidal attempt to stand up to the great Kazan, I arrogantly and stupidly challenged him on it."

Through strategy, Sun Ce quickly defeated Liu Xun and turned his attention to his patricidal nemesis, Huang Zu.

She added thoughtfully, "Perhaps I had better set up a lifetime trust that will make them slightly better off with me alive than dead...to protect myself against patricidal assassination.

He followed the patricidal tragedy of Warlord Chmee at the Pillars, almost squeezing the wetness out of his fur after the Storm at the Pillars.

It is this patricidal aspect, this struggle of a nation against its own past, that has ultimately made the Russian upheavals more poignant, more awe-inspiring and fateful than the East European rebellions.

Freud's theories can be seen to be centred around the triangular Oedipus complex, the patricidal relation between child and father, and incestuous desire for the mother, as a model for the development of each individual's personality.

Following a theory proposed by a contemporary biblical critic, Freud believed that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, producing a collective sense of patricidal guilt that has been at the heart of Judaism ever since.

Artistic images were seen by Joseph Campbell in terms of "incestuous 'libido' and patricidal 'destrudo'"; while literary descriptions of the conflict between destrudo and libido are still fairly widespread in the 21st century.

A far more savage version of the loner figure haunts "Rock Minuet," the story of a patricidal sadomasochist whose ultimate kick comes from observing two men in the back of a lower Manhattan warehouse having their eyes sewn shut.

Rickels is unlike Bloom, however, in his insistence that the psychoanalysis of literature must go beyond the notions of patricidal writing that followed a generation of psychoanalysts' reduction of Freud's thought to the Oedipal scenario" (Modern Language Notes 112, 1997: 487).

One member, identified as Ms. S. and portraying herself as a former girlfriend, said that Mr. Cox told her he believed he murdered the couple because they were sleeping in a bedroom once used by his parents and he had been diagnosed in elementary school as having matricidal and patricidal tendencies.