The first comes from Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Woebegone Days', and concerns the effects of the absence of a parental couple on boyhood and manhood. The narrator records going back to his home town as a married man to berate his parents for their shortcomings in bringing him up. While he actually has two parents, psychologically speaking he has only one - his mother. He takes a manifesto of '95 complaints against his upbringing' to tack to the door, until he finds his upbringing inhibits him from doing so. He has rebelled so much against the perceived dictates of home that he discovers he has lived a life more dominated by them than if he had never left home. Here, in technical terms, is an account of an internalised narcissistic object relationship, unmediated by any third person or presence, resulting in an intrusive/evasive patterning of actual relationships (the quotation is not reproduced for copyright reasons).