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...Gino's parents were Italian, very affectionate to each other and their children. But after Gino's father died, his mother changed. She neglected her children, had an affair with their uncle Aiello (Hamlet's Claudius), who used to beat them. Although Gino hated Aiello, he did not retaliate, for in his mind only his mother was guilty. After Aiello, his mother became promiscuous...
When he was eleven, Gino determined to kill her. After six years of wrestling with his inhibitions, he rushed into her bedroom with the knife. As soon as he killed her, he felt relief from tremendous tension...
Obvious to amateur Freudians is the fact that Gino had an Oedipus complex, was in love with his mother. He was prudish toward girls, shied away from sex experience. But, contrary to Freud's definition, he did not consider his father a rival-in fact he identified himself with him as the head of the family, and had the same feelings as a jealous husband...
...murder. Many men, says Dr. Wertham, have matricidal impulses, never translate them into action. Instead they bury the desire in their subconscious, develop compulsion neuroses-a morbid dread of knives, persistent symbolic hand-washing, etc. If he had had a tendency toward ordinary forms of insanity, Gino might have killed himself instead of his mother. Or he might have withdrawn to the world of fantasy, developed schizophrenia...
Instead, not understanding his powerful sex urge, he convinced himself that his mother had disgraced the family honor. He had been brought up among people who consider it right to punish someone who disgraces the family-Gino never thought he was doing wrong...