Sam Vaknin
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472 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Feb
Sam Vaknin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think it's like killing the parents by proxy, vicariously.
And why do they kill?
Why is this parricidal instinct or drive in the story?
Because the parents have failed them.
The children perceive the parents as having failed them, having frustrated them and disappointed them, having not fulfilled the classical parental roles.
This is the case with all parricidal killers.
they perceive the parents as having failed them in some way.
The psychopathic ones or the narcissistic ones, they say, the parents failed me, they didn't give me enough money.
And the less pernicious ones, the less insidious ones, less evil ones, they say the parents have failed me because they wouldn't let me become.
They wouldn't let me be me.
They did not really love me.
They loved maybe what I represented, or they loved what I could have become, or they loved what I should have become, but they never loved me.
Now, back to the Reiners.
The father didn't have to actually do anything.
It's sufficient that he was successful and accomplished.
That in itself is a trigger.
Yes.
His very presence is a constant reminder of failure and inadequacy.
His very success, his very accomplishments, the very fact that they had a circle of friends, while evidently Carl Reiner didn't.
And so the child, it grates, it constantly grates.
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