The Jewish Mother
Told by Rabbi Lionel Blue on Thought for the day, Radio 4, Monday
29th July 1991.
A Jewish young man was seeing a psychiatrist for an eating and
sleeping disorder.
I am so obsessed with my mother… As soon as I go to sleep, I start
dreaming, and everyone in my dream turns into my mother. I wake up in
such a state, all I can do is go downstairs and eat a piece of toast.
The psychiatrist replies:
What, just one piece of toast, for a big boy like you?