Mommy Issues

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Is mom still doing your laundry!? In episode 91 of Overthink, Ellie and David explore the twisty world of mommy issues, from the OG mother Mary to today’s seducing MILFs. They look into psychonalytic theories of the mom-child bond, paying close attention to ways these theories have been challenged and expanded in the 20th century. They also discuss Simone de Beauvoir’s critique of maternal devotion by diving into some its most extreme, and problematic, manifestations. Your hosts ask: Is it true that mothers identify more easily with their children of the same gender? Do macho men and wimpy boys sexualize their mothers in similar ways? And of course: who’s the biggest mama’s boy of them all?

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Works Discussed
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity
Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering
Michelle Dean, "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, …"
Jacques Derrida, Reflections on the Mother Tongue
Sigmund Freud, The Freud Reader
Donald Winnicott, The Good Enough Parent
Don Jon (2013)
MILF Manor (2023)

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0:00.0	Hey, Overthinkers, it's David here with a quick message before we get into today's episode.
0:04.8	If you've been keeping up to date with all of our recent amazing Overthink episodes,
0:09.3	you'll know that we had a difficult experience after we paid to rent a studio in Paris
0:15.7	and nobody was there to help us with the audio at all.
0:19.3	Leaving us to our own devices because our wonderful audio editor was not there help us with the audio at all, leaving us to our own devices because our wonderful
0:22.3	audio editor was not there with us either. I want to let you know that that's kind of an issue
0:28.7	in this episode. Our audio editor did his absolute best to get rid of some of our popping sounds,
0:35.9	our popping peas and teas, but the audio quality is not
0:39.8	quite up to our usual standards. And that's because we had to do the audio levels ourselves
0:45.8	when we were recording, and obviously that's not our area of expertise. I also want to note that we
0:52.2	discuss child abuse and murder in Section 2 from around the 21-minute mark to about the 35-minute mark.
1:01.1	So you might want to skip that if that's a sensitive topic for you, or at least handle with care.
1:23.5	Thank you. Hello and welcome to Overthink.
1:26.1	The Mother of All Podcasts.
1:29.9	I'm Dr. Ellie Anderson. And I'm Dr. David Penya Guzman.
1:36.7	Ellie, have you heard about this new TV show called Milf Manor? I think the name rings a bell.
2:02.9	It's a reality dating show and I plan to watch some episodes for us to talk about and then I just could not handle it after I learned about it a little bit more. So this is the summary for this reality show. So your students are going to say next time they don't do their reading. They're like, I listened to your podcast, and you just said you couldn't handle it. That's how I felt about the Kierkegaard reading. Yeah, I mean, huge difference between Kirkagard's reading and Milf Manor. But here is...
2:03.7	Dude probably had some mommy issue. about the Kierkegaard reading. Yeah, I mean, a huge difference between Kierkegaard's reading and Milf Manor.
2:02.6	But here is...
2:03.6	Dude probably had some mommy issues.
2:05.6	I mean, yeah, they played out in his romantic life.
2:07.6	I know.
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