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Freud's Thirdness of the Substitute
The origin story of these figures starts with well there are these different maids where these little sexual escapades went on yeah and they're not necessarily just standing in for the mother. The anthem of kinship includes this weird indeterminate relation with the pair like a next up pin that might kind of hate you might over sexualize things and you get to enact there something which is not just this thing so i think it's really goodGood catch: David Frum talks about how Freud was always quick to point out when he says "mother or her substitute" It can be mirrored back to that distinction but it logically could latch onto other things, writes Freiherrmann.