Tallis

As the 19th century state has to control amounts of human biomass unlike anything previously experienced by political bodies, it quickly becomes apparent that its repression apparatus will have to be delegated. It turns to the family which then becomes the nuclear family.

This nuclear family becomes exceedingly efficient at repression, creating the Oedipus complex as the structure of the modern mind. The bourgeois classes are processed through this frame which they shall now understand as "human nature" or "the nature of consciousness" (Chomsky).

The nuclear family tends to produce mental illness in some subjects. Hysteria, neurosis & paranoia are the forms of mental illness produced by the 19th-mid 20th bourgeoisie & its familial repression apparatus. They are simply is the downside of this socio-economic organization.

Every socio-economic organization has a related set of mental illnesses whose existence cannot be prevented, merely treated. EVERY mental illness is a Culture-Bound Syndrome. As we abandon the nuclear family for something new & dangerous, the truth is we've seen nothing yet.