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Fairbairn & Guntrip: Origins of Object-Relations

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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The Parents Can't Be Good Enough

The self psychologist admits that the child will always fall why? Because the parents can never be good enough, you see. If he said that, he'd be joining the abrahamic religions. They don't want to look at the tragic, fallen nature of the human condition. And while momey and daddy make it worse, they can't prevent it. The fall is inevitable. Even if they were successful, which they can't be,. even if they were, there'd still be a fall That they will not say.

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