In this first installment of our weekly psychoanalysticle series Freudian Fridays, we take a look at one of Western civilization’s most powerful myths and Sigmund Freud’s favorite bedtime story: Oedipus Rex.

For the unfamiliar, those who didn’t see it reenacted by Julianne Moore earlier this year in Savage Grace, and anybody else really, please refresh your memory with this amazing Oedipus re-telling using vegetables (warning: video contains explicit potato-on-tomato action).

And so we turn to that ceremony during which unbounded mother-son love is most often displayed, a wedding, with How to Dance Like Star’s somewhat creepy list of the Top 10 Mother Son Dance Songs. There are some painfully obvious and cheesy entries like “A Song for Mama” by Boyz II Men and “I Am Your Child” by Barry Manilow, but a little further down the Top 10 we come across some unsettling choices:

4. Celine Dion, “Because You Loved Me”

Aside from the obvious romantic plot attached to the song for being used as the theme to Up Close & Personal, and Dion’s daddy issues (marrying her manager, 26 years her senior), the song has some clear child-parent lyrics such as “You saw the best there was in me/ Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach”, but what about lines like “I had your love, I had it all”? Sounds like some pretty kinky stuff to me.

And what about “The tender wind that carried me/ A light in the dark shining your love into my life”? You can only be so vague when you tell your parent that they touched you with their penetrating love.

6. Kenny Rogers, “Through the Years”

Sadly, there is no official video to disambiguate this one, though the fan-made accompaniment linked above - with its intense orchid imagery - should be enough to persuade us that there’s something more than Platonic love at work here.

A closer look at the lyrics will do the same: “Can’t imagine anything the two of us can’t do” (I could think of a few things) and “It’s better everyday/ You’ve kissed my tears away” (that seems like an odd mother-son activity, no?).

7. Elton John, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”

Again, this one’s attached to a movie romance (Disney’s typically heterosexual monogamy-pushing The Lion King), but perhaps Elton John’s being gay is supposed to deflate the obvious sexual connotations that might make this inappropriate mother-son fare.

Aside from the oft-repeated title, obviously, what to make of “When the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours”? Why are your hearts beating so fast? What rhythm are they beating to?

Other Oedipal mother-son songs we missed? Let us know in the comments below.