Rockabuy Baby Scene 48

Joey often found himself absent-mindedly sucking on the nearest available object without realizing he had put it in his mouth. Lately, he had discovered that he was fearful in the presence of strangers and begun clinging to Becky for protection. His adult mind knew she was the enemy, but his predominant Id was convinced that she was his mother and would protect him from harm. Joey realized immediately after his transformation that he was undergoing the same psychological transference of responsibility and relinquishment of autonomy that hostages who were affected by the Stockholm syndrome normally suffered but he had been powerless to stop the process. When a person became a hostage to terrorists, the terrorists became the surrogate parents of the hostage. Hostages invariably unconsciously associated their authoritarian keepers with the all-powerful parents of their infancy and began to identify with them. The fact that they were dependent on the terrorist for their food, water and right to go to the toilet only intensified the identification of the terrorist with parental figures in their subconscious minds.