Mother-complex
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Carl Jung argues that typical effects of the mother-complex on the son:
- “are homosexuality and Don Juanism, and sometimes also impotence. In homosexuality, the son's entire heterosexuality is tied to the mother in an unconscious form; in Don Juanism, he unconsciously seeks his mother in every woman he meets....Because of the difference in sex, a son's mother-complex does not appear in pure form. This is the reason why in every masculine mother-complex, side by side with the mother archetype, a significant role is played by the image of the man's sexual counterpart, the anima.” --Jung, Carl. 1959. Symbols of Transformation. New York: Princeton University Press. p85.
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