Stephen King’s Carrie (1974) offers the secondary but unforgettable figure of Margaret White, a religious fanatic who tortures her daughter, but the dynamic reverberates in King’s other works. More directly, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) is the cinematic ur-text of toxic motherhood. Norman Bates is a killer, but he is also a devoted son. The famous twist—that “Mother” is both a corpse in the fruit cellar and a voice in Norman’s head—literalizes the internalized mother. Norman cannot become a man because he cannot separate; he literally wears his mother’s clothes and her voice. As he says in the chilling final scene, “Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly.” The film suggests that the mother who refuses to yield control creates a son who can never be a whole person.
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