07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny and the Unconscious
The idea of a symptom, symptoms are meaningful. The child doesn't just express the fact that that these two parents one time fucked, right? And this might not be equally distributed among children in a family. Also, it might be carried more specifically or more intensely by one child, for instance. Think about at a funeral and getting everyone to tell stories about the person who died then someone says something which is true but people don't want to hear. That's what we may call taboos or social norms.
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