Mothering is a phenomenon we’re all quite familiar with (if you ask Hitchcock, it leads straight to being a gay murderer). As Neatorama’s listicle of 6 Mamma’s Boys demonstrates, the effects of mothering can be emotionally crippling, endlessly empowering, or (more often) some mix of the two.

Like Elvis, who seems to have benefitted from being the apple in his mother Glady’s eye for a while, until he turned into an obese drug-addicted parody of himself. Freud, meanwhile, had a relationship with his mother Amalie (at right) that comes as close to the story of Oedipus Rex as it can without including patricide and incest (although maybe he was just spicing up his writings with some personal testimonials). Between rock and psychoanalysis, where would we be without mamma’s boys?