Mother fixation

Japanese: mother fixation(英語表記)motherfixation
Mother fixation

…A term referring to excessive attachment or fixation on one's mother. However, this is a common usage along with its often-used contraction, mama's boy, and the corresponding psychoanalytic term is mother fixation. Incidentally, excessive attachment or fixation on one's father is called a father complex (or more correctly, father fixation).

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mother fixation" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…母親に対する過度の愛着や執着をさす語。しかしこれはしばしば使用されるその短縮表現である〈マザコン〉とともに通俗的な用法であり,これに照応する精神分析の用語は〈母親固着mother fixation〉である。なお,父親に対する過度の愛着や執着は,〈ファーザー・コンプレクスfather complex〉(正しくは〈父親固着father fixation〉)とよばれる。…

※「mother fixation」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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