I Love Mommy Oedipus Complex

Age 4: "I love Mommy." Age 16: "I love Mommy." Age 20: "I love Mommy." Age 57: "I love Mommy." I have an Oedipus Complex

A three-panel progression of distressed-face emojis appears above the repeated statement “I love Mommy” at different ages. Robert Downey Jr. is shown gesturing beside the caption “I have an Oedipus Complex,” turning exaggerated lifelong affection for one’s mother into a dark psychological joke about the Oedipus complex. It is used as an absurd reaction to someone who seems unusually attached to their mother. EN: A three-panel progression of distressed-face emojis appears above the repeated statement “I love Mommy” at different ages. Robert Downey Jr. is shown gesturing beside the caption “I have an Oedipus Complex,” turning exaggerated lifelong affection for one’s mother into a dark psychological joke about the Oedipus complex. It is used as an absurd reaction to someone who seems unusually attached to their mother.

• @afrosidemoon / 48149 2022-05-02