And children will always need to try to satisfy their parents, to become what they assume the parents need, and find themselves both unwilling and unable to do this. (No child ever recovers from not having cured his parents.) But what happens if we draw a line from the parent and child in this formative and familiar drama of getting it and not getting it to the adult the child will become and the objects in the cultural field that begin to engage her. And then ask a simple question: why is it so difficult to enjoy not getting it?
