The lie couples live within
exploring the film “The Lie”. Psychoanalytic couples treatment, and the poisonous internal bargains that bind and trap
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https://doi.org/10.60106/rsbppa.v16i2.537Keywords:
Couples therapy, Lie, Projective identification, TruthAbstract
The film “The Lie” is examined from a psychoanalytic perspective to understand the unconscious lies that can become the destructive link or antilink between couples. Using concepts from the Kleinian approach, the author discusses the psychological struggle each character had and the manner in which the truth of difference, conflict, and disappointment came to fuel a mutual set of lies that protected them yet crippled them and kept them lonely, empty, and apart. Only when the weight of their internal sense of failure was exposed could they find strength in each other to feel whole and strive toward change and choice. In addition, case material from psychoanalytic couple’s treatment is used to illustrate these issues as they unfold in the clinical situation.
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