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02: Transference

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Importance of Expectations in Relationships

The idea that like we have expectations which are again like formed in the crucible of the family is a key psychoanalytic thing. When people talk about extremely powerful distant but like present their media figures the templates that they use for these are oftentimes from those infantile things. People take sides with some parent and you can't help but feel like oh this is playing out like everyone involved are kids in a nasty divorce, he says.

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