Cinema took this archetype and ran it through the wringer of mid-century anxiety. In Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock gives us the ultimate pathological mother-son relationship without ever showing her alive. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has been so thoroughly internalized by his mother that he has become her. “A boy’s best friend is his mother,” Norman says, and the line drips with irony and horror. Theirs is a relationship of mutual cannibalism: Mother will destroy any woman who threatens to take Norman away, and Norman will become Mother to preserve that bond. Psycho suggests that a mother’s possessive love can literally dissolve a son’s identity, leaving only a fragmented, murderous shell.
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