Most Parsi mothers seem to have mamma’s boys
Berjis Desai
They come in all shapes and sizes. Mamma’s boys. Effeminate or macho, heterosexual or gay, married or bachelor, youthful or grey haired, wealthy or poor, orthodox or liberal, learned or lumpen. The number of Parsi men who are excessively attached to their mothers is startlingly large. According to Sigmund Freud, the Oedipus complex denotes a son’s latent desire to have sexual relations with the maternal parent. However, a child who subsequently identifies with the same sex parent successfully resolves this complex. If this identification fails, the boy remains a lifelong mamma’s boy. Unlike the BBC teleserial, "Some Mothers Do ’Ave......