The reason the mother-son relationship resonates so deeply in art is that it is the first relationship a man ever has. It is where he first learns how to be vulnerable, how to be loved, and how to love in return.
On the literary side, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) features Enid Lambert, a Midwestern matriarch whose relentless cheerfulness and emotional manipulation has warped her three sons. The oldest, Gary, attempts to set boundaries and fails spectacularly. The irony is that Enid is not evil; she is lonely. The novel suggests that the mother-son conflict in late capitalism is often about attention: the son wants to live his own life; the mother wants to be the center of the narrative. www incezt net real mom son 1