The Freudian Influence in Psychoanalysis and Family Dynamics

In the New York Psycho-Analytic Society, when someone uses the pronoun 'he', it's almost always a reference to Freud. The favorite son of his mother often feels like a conqueror in life. Shockley's mother wrote in her diary that she wants to pass on a feeling of force and responsibility to her eight-year-old son, Billy. It's unusual for a mother to have such desires for her young child.