The relationship between parents and children unleashes mixed feelings: love, competition, rivalry, admiration, rebellion, everything is part of the universe in which specialists of the stature of Sigmund Freud delved to find answers about that difficult bond. According to Freud, the son’s drive is to “kill” the father, to overcome him. Something that in the cases of Pablo Moyano and Maximo Kirchner it is far from happening. How to find your own way with such omnipotent parents?
The psychologist Joaquin Pichon-Rivière explains: “Growing in the shade of a very large tree makes the other tree smaller. It grows bad. When the son leaves that shadow that protected him, finds no arguments. For Pichon-Rivière, moreover, there is a clear difference between the private and public sectors because in the latter positions are often obtained thanks to the last name. “The meritocracy of the private sector is not the same as the feudalism of the State. That’s worse than inheriting, it’s nepotism. It happens with Pablo Moyano in the CGT and with Máximo Kirchner in the PJ of Buenos Aires, where he encountered severe resistance because, for the Peronists, he was occupying a place that, beyond his last name, did not correspond to him”.
The psychologist and writer Beatriz Goldberg analyzes: “It is very difficult to be a ‘son of’. It’s easy to get in, but then you have to prove yourself, earn your place. And that becomes complicated when there is a very omnipresent, very phallic father. It happened with Ricardito Alfonsín, who used to wear his father’s suits, do you remember? He was the same physically, but he wasn’t up to the task.” For Goldberg, one of the ways of “killing” the father, which Pablo Moyano and Maximumis to travel a path different from the one that was laid out for them. “Máximo is in politics because he is the son of the Kirchners and Pablo is in the CGT why is it called Moyano. It is what they were told, what their parents expect of them. But there are cases like Macri’s, for example, that in his own way he was able to surpass his father because he was president. He left the family business and made his own way, first in Boca and then in politics”.
by RN
