| Work | Central Relationship | Complexity Mechanism | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Succession (HBO) | Logan Roy & his children | Love expressed exclusively through abuse; the "poisoned chalice" of inheritance. The children cannot leave because they cannot imagine identity outside the family. | | August: Osage County | Violet & Barbara Weston | The mother replicates the abuse she suffered; the daughter becomes the mother. Cycle is unbroken by the film’s end. | | The Corrections (Franzen) | The Lambert siblings | Each sibling’s adult pathology (philandering, depression, materialism) maps directly to a specific parenting failure. No single villain exists. |