Kay's Film Analysis: The Night Porter Psychological Analysis…
…in thinking about Edward VII, in that he wasn’t breast fed, it is now clear to me he was trapped. Having a wet nurse was to resolve the negative issues male children face in their rearing only in the case of a wet nurse their lives hang in the balance and to destroy the nurse would be, as Fairbairn states, tantamount to psychological suicide, no matter how much she may abuse him (not saying that is the case) in someway or that he may even think she abused him.
It’s clear to me he likely was the one who shot at Queen Victoria. I think he sought out these other women to replace his mother’s love. Of course this has not been my purpose in learning this material but to understand my own behavior, of course, it is easy to see how the use of another would aid in the separation of the wet nurse from the child and create some psychic bonding between the biological mother and child. For this to happen one’s mother would have to be prevented from breast feeding their child.
