From Household Tyranny to State Violence: Narcissistic Micro-Politics and the Architecture of Power

Résumé

This article proposes that the family is more than a mere metaphor for the state: it must instead be treated as its primary rehearsal stage. Narcissistic family systems reproduce, at a reduced scale, the same patterns of instrumentalisation, gaslighting and sacrificial scapegoating that later appear in autocratic regimes.