plus the murderer and his mom.
This is my theory about the murderer. Get ready to call me crazy, but I am backing this up with Sigmund Freud and Michael Kahn, Ph.D., author of the book,
Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Thought for the 21st Century, which I recently read.
There's a whole chapter in there about The Oedipus Complex. I never thought much about it until after I read this book. Right away, after hearing this whole story about Adam Lanza, I connected it with what I had read. Basically, in Freud's theory, boys want their mothers for themselves. Unconsciously. They have a rival -- their father -- that they must compete with for their mother's love. When their father leaves the picture, such as through divorce, this is not healthy for a boy and it can lead to all kinds of neurotic problems and psychological/unconscious damage. Why? Because it means the boy has become successful at attaining the mother for himself.
This is one reason that I think this guy - Adam Lanza - went crazy and killed those people. It is probably the result of a sick, mentally ill mind mixed in with his Oedipus Complex. He was living alone with his mother. He won her and he went crazy.
If you don't believe me, look at the movie,
Psycho. It's the same thing with Norman Bates and his mother. That's another Oedipus Complex story -- a lonely young man who kills his mother and kills other people, too.
Adam Lanza was Norman Bates with a rifle.
He killed his mother and then he went to the school where she volunteered and killed all of those kids. Isn't it funny that he picks his mom's school? There are reports that she and Adam Lanza were both weird residents of the town who were anti-social, high strung, distant, cold, troubled, etc. In one article I read, Adam Lanza was even described as "repressed."
It's Norman Bates and his mother with automatic rifles. That is my psychological theory. You probably won't hear it anywhere else, but please, get it out there.
This is not just a gun problem. This is a problem involving the family unit in today's world. Adam Lanza had special problems and he needed more attention and more direction in life. We don't know the full story about his life and his family, but I think that there's a deep, complex drama that went on with his family. I think his parents divorcing was an issue. No, not everyone who goes through these things ends up like Adam Lanza, of course -- this is just an extreme example.
It is not simply about guns and video games and violent media and being trained to operate guns and such at a young age. It's about family. It's about not being groomed for this world. The older brother, Ryan, was following in his dad's footsteps -- Adam was stuck in his mother's care. He was a male with severe developmental issues caught in a bad home, with no direction. It all made him snap.
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