Lying In The Psychoanalytical Process

The graduate qualification work “Lying in the psychoanalytic process” examines the issues the issues of the two protagonists’ facing lies in the psychoanalytic process. The work proposes the hypothesis that psychoanalysis is something that belongs beyond the truth. 122 sources were used in the work, of which 40 were works of foreign authors. The volume of the work is 175 pages. The graduate qualification work consists of a theoretical part which includes four sub-chapters, within which there are 13 sections. The topics of leading psychoanalysts’ basic concepts relating to the true and the false self, reality and fantasies, reasons and meanings embedded in the subject’s lies are covered, the basic concepts of lies and truth are also examined, scenarios where a lie is acted out by the subject are considered, in particular shame, narcissism, melancholy. Attention is paid to lies of the psychoanalyst. The pathology of lying is examined, and the main approaches to working with patients are clarified. The psychosomatic aspect of the impact of lies is described, including examples. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the systematization of psychoanalytic concepts and views on lies and the formation of the subject, in revealing the view on psychoanalysis as a method working with lies. In the empirical part, an analysis was carried out of the film “The Best Offer”, which is a metaphor for the psychoanalytic process. In the film, a lie served as the discovery of the subject’s truth about himself; it was the lie that “unpacked” the subject and his experiences and he was able to open up to new experiences through the discovery of himself and others. Both the theoretical part of the work and practical recommendations for working with patients may be of interest to practicing analytical therapists encountering various requests in their work with patients.