I'm wondering what she'd be diagnosed with if it were today? Instead of the 70's where her erratic behavior was seemingl
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shan0605 — 10 years ago(October 05, 2015 03:07 PM)
I'm wondering what she'd be diagnosed with if it were today? Instead of the 70's where her erratic behavior was seemingly just "accepted" (by her husband for example)
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StarrKitty — 10 years ago(October 25, 2015 04:30 AM)
I think she is one of those mothers who have an unnatural fixation on their sons in spite of having a husband. She sounds like the other woman and it's truly sickening because there are real women that behave like this with their sons.
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Mr_Ectoplasma — 10 years ago(October 26, 2015 05:47 PM)
I agree with this. It's like the overbearing fathers who have fixations on their teenage daughters (which I always find disturbing and probably subconsciously psychosexual). That was what she seemed like to me.
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gbeck86 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 12:29 PM)
PT Anderson was getting out some anger towards his mother. I read in a book that she was a very mean woman towards him.
His dad Ernie was a self involved man and a lot of Robards character in Magnolia is based on him. -
franzkabuki — 10 years ago(November 06, 2015 09:37 PM)
From Diggler's mom screaming about her son's sexual exploits the film cuts to his sad, wimpy dad sitting on the bed and listening to the argument through the wall it could not have been made more obvious what her hysteria was all about.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan -
ColinChapman — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 07:23 PM)
She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance. -
Jack_Brock — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 01:59 PM)
She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.
I agree that Eddie/Dirk was a slug. I don't know too many people who say when they are kids "I want to grow up and be a drug abusing porn star".
But that's usually a result of bad parenting. Those parents had issues. -
Johnny Wadd — 4 years ago(September 14, 2021 05:50 AM)
She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.
Pretty much this. -
dgbenner — 9 years ago(June 11, 2016 07:50 AM)
Surprised no one mentioned this as it seems really clear to me Dad wasn't equipped like Dirk.
Not that it's all her motivation (or she wants him or anything like that), as she has moments of clarity after blowups, but watch it again and see it through that lens it all seems to sync. -
HowYaLikeDemApplesWill — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 06:36 AM)
In psychoanalytic analysis, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment,including domineering but asexual mother love something perhaps particularly prevalent with an intelligent son and an absent/weak father figure.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?