Freud in his studies often referred to the formative years of development that creates the self. The most prominent stage is the phallic stage where the Oedipus Complex comes into play. While the Oedipus Complex deals with a male's fear of castration in some way, whether that is a literal or figurative castration depends on how you read it, it focuses on the relationship between a son and his parents, and how that shapes the self in the coming years.
Bring in Buster Bluth, the eccentric, immature, and inept of the Bluth Family featured in Arrested Development. Buster shows a strong attachment to his mother Lucille, to the point of being unhealthy. He still lives at home with his mother and has even competed in MotherBoy, “an annual dance promoting mother-son bonding. Lucille has gone with Buster over 30 times, and on many occasions, won cutest couple.”
The Oedipal Complex of wanting to make love to your own mother could easily be exhibited in his romantic relationship with his mother's best friend, biggest enemy, and even shares the same name, Lucille Austero. While this relationship could be construed as an act of rebellion against the wishes of his own mother, Buster still is fulfilling what could be considered coitus with a mother figure.
The father that raised Buster is not George Bluth, but his identical twin brother Oscar who shares some of the same mannerisms that Buster does. Since the mannerisms exhibited by Oscar can be seen as those that won over Lucille Bluth, Buster does adopted them as his own.
This is merely a shortened version of what I have gone over in my head, but from a quick psychoanalytical view on Buster Bluth, he fits into the undeveloped Phallic Stage that Freud has discussed.
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