Is Rogues inability to control her powers psychological in nature?
Probably, although the real issue is what “psychological” problems she might have had. The most popular theory is that Rogue suffered some form of physical abuse in her youth, causing her to subconsciously keep her powers on all the time to prevent it from happening again. Skids’ problem deactivating her force field was revealed in X-Factor #16 to be a result of her father’s physical abuse of herself and her mother, and the same logic is typically applied to Rogue’s problem. However, the problem with Rogue’s powers may just be a lack of practice. Steven Seagle in UXM #354 had Rogue giving mouth-to-mouth resucitation to Joseph, and she was able to partially control her absorption power in the process. At the time she claimed that since she was never allowed to use her powers except when needed in combat, she never had a chance to learn control, a rather obvious and clever solution to this longtime problem. Rogue’s unexpected control over her powers isn’t actually new, either; even prior
