Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.
Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.
A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
I was a mother's boy.
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.
I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.
A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
'The Pink Lady' rides the Freudian wave. You know, the big lady, the relationship to mom - those things are obviously part of that piece.
I am a hopeless mamma's boy.
I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that 'Twin Peaks' came up with a whole new Pandora's Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
The sponsors of this bill obviously have an unresolved Oedipal complex.
Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.
Who doesn't desire his fathers death?
