In psychoanalytic theory, it is a son unconscious sexual love for his mother and his subsequent hostility and jealousy toward his father. A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex. ... The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... Morel does not smother her youngest son, Arthur because he is too much like his father. ... Her sons become her bailment in emotion and object of love in spirit, and she even indulges in the affection ...

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Lester and Willie begin their trip into Linden Hills at Lester's house where the reader meets Lester's mother, Mrs. ... Ironically, she uses her once loved talent of diving to kill herself. ... He eventually brought back a young wife, whose name is not even mentioned, who gave him a son to carry on his father's work in the morgue and the building up of the land. ...

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