ABSTRACT
The impossible wish to get rid of the parental gods without whom life cannot continue is a universal psychic trap. Parricidal wishes remain, at least unconsciously, a part of each human being’s continuing burden. The setting of the author's new part-time temporary additional office for one day a week required taking a few steps down from the waiting room once the office door was opened into what had been “sunken” living room. A few openly expressed the frightening intensity of their anger, but almost every patient made initially disconnected associations to death and murder in their sessions. In the long period of separating, and becoming partially independent from the godlike creatures, people relative helplessness and dependency cause feelings of intense anger, with individual differences in quantity and quality. With the unrealistic magical thinking that is characteristic of the immature mind, children inevitably believe that their anger has terrifying, murderous potential.
