Queen of the Deep

'''Farmer, Philip José. "Queen of the Deep" (vt "Son").' Argosy'' March 1954. Farmer, Strange Relations. New York: Ballantine, 1960.

The birth of the "healthy, independent individual locked inside the neurotic, mother-dominated weakling" who is the story's protagonist. "Jonah-like, Jones is held prisoner in the guts of a cybernated submarine that looks like a whale and talks like a woman." See Russell Letson, "The Worlds of Philip José Farmer," Extrapolation 18 (May 1977): 128-29 quoted here.