Sam Vaknin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Feb
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although the father is a protector figure, there's a duck, a talking duck, that helps them to get along and get there.
In short, the family is a nightmare.
In the stories of the Green Brothers, the family is a nightmare, a veritable nightmare.
And of course, you mentioned the Oedipus complex, the Electra complex, the Adjaci complex.
Some of these complexes are less known.
So some of them involve sibling rivalry.
Some of them involve sibling collusion against parents and so on.
There's a panoply of complexes in psychoanalytic literature which describe the inevitable violence between family members.
Violence, lethal violence.
And so...
I think we tend to ignore the reality of this at our peril.
You see, relationships between family members, especially parents and children, are by far the most intense.
not only are they most intense, but the relationship is reminiscent of creator-creation interactions, that the parents are the creators, you know?
And the same way we rebel against God, like Nietzsche said, God is dead, the same way we rebel against God, we rebel against these divine, infallible figures of our early childhood.
We want them dead first.
because the alternative is to never become.
If you put the parents together, that's who you are.
Essentially, big parts of you are nothing but the internalization and introjection of your parents.
Your parents are a huge part of you.
If you are emotionally regulated and stable and boundaried and mature and everything, then you can cope with it somehow.
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