She thinks is in "control"! And believes she is smarter than those around her, because of all the intellectual knowledge she learned from me and has the illusion that gives her an advantage in the games people play, but she doesn't realize that she is still emotionally blind by the unresolved repressed emotions of the child she once was and she is driven by the unresolved repressed emotions into the state of repetition compulsion and intellectual knowledge and money alone will not save her or liberate her
"Pain is the way to the truth. By denying that you were unloved as a child, you spare yourself some pain, but you are not with your own truth. And throughout your whole life, you'll try to earn love. In therapy, avoiding pain causes blockage. Yet nobody can confront being neglected or hated without feeling guilty. "It is my fault that my mother is cruel," he thinks. "I made my mother furious; what can I do to make her loving?" So he will continue trying to make her love him. The guilt is really protection against the terrible realization that you are fated to have a mother who cannot love. This is much more painful than to think, "Oh, she is a good mother, it's only me who's bad." Because then you can try to do something to get love. But it's not true; you cannot earn love. And feeling guilty for what has been done to you only supports your blindness and your neurosis."
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2012/12/removing-reins-of-guilt.html
The aunt she hates so much was raised by her mother so her aunt is a victim of her mother's upbringing as much as she is. They have more in common than she thinks...