Magazine 2021: Incest

. The book detailed how her stepfather, the prominent political scientist Olivier Duhamel

We watch the Roys tear each other apart because we recognize the primal competition for a parent’s nod of approval. We read about sibling estates in dispute because we have felt the silent calculation of who will inherit grandmother’s ring. Family drama works because it validates our most private anxieties: the fear that we are trapped, the hope that we can change, and the grim acceptance that we are, for better or worse, our mother’s daughter and our father’s son. incest magazine 2021

Family drama relies on the friction between shared history and individual desires the hope that we can change

Choosing one family member often means betraying another. Archetypes of Complex Family Relationships for better or worse