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A '''mother's boy''', also '''mummy's boy''' or '''mama's boy''', is a man who is excessively attached to his [[mother]] at an age when men are expected to be independent (e.g. live on their own, be economically independent, married to a woman or about to be married). Anecdotally, this age of independence varies throughout each strata of every human society in the world, sometimes greatly. A mother's boy may be effete or effeminate, or might be perceived as being macho, or might have a [[personality disorder]], such as [[avoidant personality disorder]], or might be [[schizophrenic]], so that the mother acts as a caretaker. In any case, a mother's boy cannot maintain a healthy partnership with a [[woman]] (Martyn Carruthers, 1998<ref>[http://www.systemiccoaching.com/sw_articles_eng/little_prince.htm Martyn Carruthers: ''Mother-Son Emotional Incest - Part 1'']</ref>).
In classical Freudian [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] theory, the term [[Oedipus complex]] denotes a child's [[Libido|desire]] to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex. [[Sigmund Freud]] believed that a child's identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex.<ref>Charles Rycroft ''A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'' (London, 2nd Ed. 1995)</ref><ref name="JosephChilders">Joseph Childers, Gary Hentzi eds. ''Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)</ref> If this identification fails, the boy remains a lifelong mama's boy.
Being mother-bonded is sometimes seen as a sign of weakness, and has a [[social stigma]] attached to it in many places, although in other places it may be more acceptable or perceived as normal. A mother-bonded man is seen to give control of his own life to his mother.
==See also==
* [[Human bonding]]
* [[Motherhood]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Norman Bates]]
* [[Seymour Skinner]]
* [[Otis Wilson]] (nicknamed "Mama's Boy" as shown in the [[Super Bowl Shuffle]])
== Television Portrayals ==
* [[Everybody Loves Raymond]]
* [[Udaan (TV series)|Udaan]]
==References==
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[[Category:Pejorative terms for people]]
[[Category:Stock characters]]
[[Category:Terms for males]]
[[Category:Motherhood]]
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New page wikitext, after the edit (new_wikitext) | '{{Other uses}}
A '''mother's boy''', also '''mummy's boy''' or '''mama's boy''', is a man who is excessively attached to his [[mother]] at an age when men are expected to be independent (e.g. live on their own, be economically independent, married to a woman or about to be married). Anecdotally, this age of independence varies throughout each strata of every human society in the world, sometimes greatly. A mother's boy may be effete or effeminate, or might be perceived as being macho, or might have a [[personality disorder]], such as [[avoidant personality disorder]], or might be [[schizophrenic]], so that the mother acts as a caretaker.
In classical Freudian [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] theory, the term [[Oedipus complex]] denotes a child's [[Libido|desire]] to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex. [[Sigmund Freud]] believed that a child's identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex.<ref>Charles Rycroft ''A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'' (London, 2nd Ed. 1995)</ref><ref name="JosephChilders">Joseph Childers, Gary Hentzi eds. ''Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)</ref> If this identification fails, the boy remains a lifelong mama's boy.
Being mother-bonded is sometimes seen as a sign of weakness, and has a [[social stigma]] attached to it in many places, although in other places it may be more acceptable or perceived as normal. A mother-bonded man is seen to give control of his own life to his mother.
==See also==
* [[Human bonding]]
* [[Motherhood]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Norman Bates]]
* [[Seymour Skinner]]
* [[Otis Wilson]] (nicknamed "Mama's Boy" as shown in the [[Super Bowl Shuffle]])
== Television Portrayals ==
* [[Everybody Loves Raymond]]
* [[Udaan (TV series)|Udaan]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Pejorative terms for people]]
[[Category:Stock characters]]
[[Category:Terms for males]]
[[Category:Motherhood]]
{{psych-stub}}' |
