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PRACTICE TALES
Oedipus Complex
The sister, Kay, came in first. I had known her for a decade, she was in her late 40s
and an attractive, vivacious, intelligent and happily married woman, but she had no
children. She told her story.
Her brother, John, had arrived the day before from a major city 1000 km. away. He
was 42 and she hadn’t seen him since she left home to marry the first man she met
at age 18. There had been minimal communication between her and her family in the
intervening 30 years, but now the family needed help, and she was expected to give
it.
John had been threatened by thugs and to escape, he had gone into hiding with his
sister. But this was only the very tip of an extraordinary iceberg. After she briefed
me, the brother attended for his prolonged consultation a few hours later.
John had always lived at home, had left school at 17 despite having excellent
marks, had never worked, never driven a car, never travelled, never flown, had no
friends and owned nothing. He wore his father’s cast off clothes, and his father had
now been dead for five years.
He appeared scruffy and immature, with the social graces of a six year old, but had
a very intelligent and well read mind. His mother was extremely wealthy, and money
was no problem, but the mother was possessive and manipulative to the extreme.
Kay had escaped her clutches, but John had not been successful. After learning from
her mistakes on Kay, the mother had fine tuned her approach with John, and he was
now totally unable to cut the apron strings. He was a puppet who danced entirely to
his mother’s tune, an extreme example of the Oedipus complex.
He not only lived in the same house as his mother, but slept in the same bed. Their
intimacy crossed all bounds of decency. But his mother realised that he had further
needs, and she obviously had fantasies of her own, so she employed prostitutes to
satisfy his urges, and she watched the action through a peephole.
One of the prostitutes had realised he was a soft mark, and gradually turned on
the financial screws, and used emotional as well as physical blackmail to obtain
steadily larger sums from John and his mother until the demands became just too
much. When they baulked at her demands, the thugs were called in, and John decided
it was time to disappear for a while to the safety of his long lost sister.
Kay was keen to break him away from his mother, and was prepared to take on his
social education, and gradually return him to functioning normally in society, but after
42 years of being excessively loved and protected by his mother, the idea of being
independent in the big wide world was far too frightening for him.
He came a second time, for a further long discussion of what he wanted and how
he felt, but he was already starting to decompensate in the absence of his mother,
and the fiercely independent Kay, who had turned her back on the family fortune to
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