The flawed mother-son psychological union as non-resilience to manhood challenges

摘要

Structured as a personality rebuilding route, the present analysis discusses how an abnormal childhood generates a problematic adulthood. The focus is on the possessive, dominant mother and the obedient son, a combination that leads to subsequent deviant behaviour and inadaptability of the grown-up man. Although many aspects are to be envisaged with this subject, my priority is to look at the adult's wounded masculinity and faulty erotic involvement as the maintenance of the primal fusion, prolonged endlessly. Relying on certain theories put forward by psychologists like Jung, Fromm, etc., these men's existence with an identity crisis in the centre is recorded here both as fear of maturation and as a mechanism of defence against the cruelty of the world.