Theories from numerous psychoanalytic have concentrated on the mother as being the parent who is most responsible for a child’s best development well being, the first being Sigmund Freud. This being one of the theories we learned in chapter 1 -A Focus on Parental Responsiveness. Uttermost influential however might be Melanie Klein’s theory. She claimed that the mother is the most influential individual to a child because she is the prime nurturer and that any of its future problems were related to bad nursing experiences. “We need to talk about Kevin” is a sadistic book portraying a troubled psychopathic teen. Perhaps the author (Lionel Shriver) of the book had in mind Melanie Klein’s theory when writing Eva (Tilda Swinton) and Kevin’s (Ezra …show more content…
This phase is divided into two subphases, the early anal and late anal. Kevin seems to be stuck in early anal. As a young child he does not gain proper control of his bowels for some time. In fact he seems to use this as weapon against his mother, drawing amusement from her dismay as he soils himself. This is built on when he walks in on parents having oral sex and declaring, 'I pooped'. This seems an obvious nod to the Freudian idea of libido and the differences in how it is expressed in infants and adults. When Kevin develops a phallic fixation on arrows. Possibly after his mother reads him a Robin Hood bedtime story describing the “full thick shaft” of three arrows embedded in a target. His improperly developed libido leads him to shoot to death his father, sister, and classmates with his bow. Nevertheless, I think that Freud is right in claiming that the Oedipal complex exists. The mom is in essence the first woman and love for her son. The mom cooks, cleans, and loves her son. In fact, the love that the son receives from his mother is so strong that no woman ever dares to compare to his first love, the mother. There are no answers in the book “We Need to Talk About Kevin” as