Sons of Seductive Predatory Mothers
The taboo of mother-son incest
“I have done that’, says my memory. I cannot have done that — says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally — memory yields.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The Katey Sagal character, (Gemma) in Sons of Anarchy and the Leila George / Ellen Barkin character, (Janine) in Animal Kingdom epitomize textbook maternal narcissists who wage psychological warfare on their sons through sexualized aggression. Sabotaging their son’s love interests, engaging in shared drug use and crossing physical boundaries with prolonged mouth kisses, sleeping in the same bed, shower interruptions and eroticized overtures reveals the way a character disordered mother uses sex to ensure an incestuous hold. Likewise, in the film Queen of Hearts step-mom Anne played by Trine Dyrholm, takes incestuous abuse to the extreme, resulting in her troubled step-son’s death.
Incest, a sexual transgression involving discrepancies in age, power, and experience mostly occurs between a child and someone known to or related to the child. (Courtois CA., 2010). Given the power differential between a trusted adult authority and a younger person, it is irrelevant that the child seemed to have desired, sought, or given consent, as the victim has been groomed, bribed, coerced and threatened by the perpetrator.
