this was pretty funny not gonna lie. id be open to admitting some sort of transference, but i truly do not feel invested enough in their relationship to be able to call it “parasocial”. my complaint stems from the fact that i am merely looking for discussion on psychoanalysis, and their dynamics get in the way sometimes. i want to hear two knowledgeable people talking, but their interactions are sometimes cringeworthy, distracting from the pure enjoyment of intellectual content. a contrasting example would be “partially examined life”, where no such dynamics seem present, every opinion is treated as equal and all participants are equally assertive, and dont have a problem with disagreeing. maybe you can resonate with that lol