www.ijellh.com 270 Filial Relationships in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Pygmalion: An Analysis Based on Psychoanalytical and Attachment Theories. Nishtha Mishra Research Scholar Department of English and M.E.L. University of Allahabad India Abstract Popularly known as a playwright of ideas, George Bernard Shaw’s art of characterisation is an area that is often overlooked. His characters are hung on the walls of memorable ones in the gallery of English Literature. The development of these characters within the course of the play is something that has been explored often. However, these characters have a history and much lies beyond the curtains of the stage. The present paper attempts to explore what lies before and beyond the development of a character in the play. It sees the root of Prof. Higgins mother fixation in the oral stage, Frank Gardner’s Oedipus complex in the anal stage and the like. Filial relationships or the patterns of parent-child interactions are the first interactions of a new-born with the society. In these interactions, society’s first demands are being placed on a child. Thus, psychologists, especially psychoanalysts have identified the first few growing years of every child crucial to his or her character building. Most insightful authors have recognized this impact and have shown how childhood is always interlinked with our adult personality; for example, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield and Great Expectations, D.H. Lawrence’s Rainbow and Sons and Lovers, T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion; the list could be endless. Many a times, the writer’s own childhood experiences are visible in what he ink down. Thus, the most important part of any plot, i.e., character development depends immensely upon an author’s representation of a character’s early experiences; in which, generally, childhood experiences play a major role. The success or failure of a character on reader’s mind depends upon how coherently his or her life