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A Family (n.) associates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠alike: its members give the same kinds of word associations without knowing each other's answers, for reasons still unknown.

The Family (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be a magic circle some people never leave, reliving the childhood milieu in every choice; neurosis appears only when libido first edges toward a goal of its own.

The Family (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠too small a community for a man, who in its leading-strings is stunted spiritually and morally — and transfers the tie to the family he raises, recreating the same suffocating atmosphere.

The Family (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in word associations: relatives, women especially, react alike — fathers and sons, mothers and daughters most of all — since everyday life is one vast association experiment.

The Family (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made of the most ordinary facts — father, mother, child, husband and wife — which create the mightiest archetypes, enthroned in Christian dogma as the ultimate mystery: Father, Son, a feminine Spirit, bride and bridegroom, mater ecclesia.

The Family (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the child's small world and the model for the great one; the more strongly it stamps the child, the more the adult will see his former small world in the great one, as spoiled children expect life to greet them as their parents did.