/lit/ - Literature

>>8704542
well if you could bake the cake you would certainly not be in such a situation.

the cake is the symbolic phallus that is castrated when the mom slices it and gives it to the boy to eat, in a sort of cannibalistic ritual of psychological union of the minds of the participants. this prevents the developing mind of the kid to emerge into an autonomous self, to be instead relegated to the role of a psychological prosthesis acting as a phallus to the mom, who hates herself for not being a male or simply who is trying to equilibrate some past trauma of her own hindered development.