Family wars are rooted in the ambivalence of affective links. Love and hate are not mutually exclusive: they cohabit within suffocating proximity. Marital conflicts, sibling rivalries, impossible expectations, all feed into tensions which, if they have no outlet, are transformed into lasting oppositions. To construct himself, the young person must oppose, sometimes violently. In this struggle for autonomy, the home becomes the theater of a true positional war.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 75-85.