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The first time I learned about Oedipus Complex was in a literature class. I had no previous understanding of what it meant. But upon learning about what it means, I was opened up to a whole new experience of the world.
I’d previously watched a “Yoruba movie” where the son had some unusual closeness with his mom, and he hated his dad for how close he was to his Mom. I’ve also seen another movie where it was The Daughter and The Dad. But as a psychological phenomenon, it is more of the son and the mother.
During my first year of being a university student, I had to take Psychology 101, and here was where I learned in detail, all about Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis of the unconscious desire of the mother to keep her child “as a child”, and never truly allowing the child to grow. The pervasive form of this Oedipus Complex is what has greatly to do with the sexual relationship between the mother and her child.
That is quite the introduction to this psychological piece. If I must add, I will only bring to life the idea of the mother who devours her child (metaphorically) and never allowed them their freedom to learn about the outside world and grow in relationship to it.
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The Oedipal Mother Archetype
The pathology of masculinity is the absent, tyrannical, or aggressive dad. While the feminine pathology is deeply rooted in the overprotection and infantilization of the child.
To Sigmund Freud, the Oedipal Mother is the mother that gets too close to her children and intermingles herself with them to too great a degree. Where, in her attempts to protect them, she undermines them, and alters their development into proper adults.
When children are over-sheltered and overprotected, they turn into grown children, and not proper adults. This is the curse of the over-protective mother.
The devouring mother is a very old archetypal idea that we sing about in our songs, tell in our tales, and act in our plays and dramas. It is an inescapabl…