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This article seeks to investigate body enhancements and transhumanism by analogy with pubertal changes within the family, for both the adolescent and the parents. The analysis is supported by clinical work with adolescents and the family and elaborates prospective assumptions. Can hormonal and body changes at adolescence (prerequisites for any human being) prefigure current technological enhancements (branded as transhumanism) for the parents? Indeed, is the family already psychologically armed (or disarmed) to think out such metamorphoses as initially stemming from the world of science fiction? How would the conflicts inherent in the family, especially the Oedipal complex, play out in a transhumanist world? The theme is pursued through a transhumanist reverie around the figure of the aggrandised father of the horde.