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12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Relationship Between the Family and the Group

The group activates these intense anxieties just because the roles aren't as obviously predetermined, like in the family. The question of individuality and boundaries is just like a much more open question for them. They can kind of defamiliarize the familial and what seem to be natural and given. And they reveal how actually being in this family always took work, right?

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