As for family members who chose to live together throughout their lives, that's fine for the Aboriginal but in modern metropolitan society, it is at best suspect and, at worst, perverse. How nice, important, valuable and salutary therefore, to get A Life . It is set in our times, more or less, but it goes completely against the grain of our ghastly modern solipsisms and it moves the heart. The kind of mutual nurturing Josipovici describes is fast disappearing. At least we have a record here of one case where a mother and son were happy together, lived a long and productive life together, and didn't need to get their heads shrunk.
Modern misanthropes take note.
It isn't all gloom on the mother and child front.