07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny Family
Sally Kohn: I think a part of thinking psychoanalytically, but also very much close to the Freudian the way Freud thinks. In other words, these narcissistic investments in certain types of grand narrative or certain types of stories, they ramify all the way down. So that discomfort ramifies and kind of mirror as the below below below kind of thing, right? She says people oftentimes like to think of quote unquote the family as being one stable thing that has always existed in one particular way. But if you listen to people talking now, she says, this is not a abstract thing. People have a really intense vision of when they're talking about the family
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