ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a psychoanalytic exploration of lies and of catastrophic change, taking some of W. R. Bion’s ideas as a starting point. The disagreement between the patient and the analyst is about the rivalry between the methods, between the lying and the psychoanalytic method, and this is related to the problem of truth and mental pain. Psychoanalysis has an interest in the investigation of lies, among other things, because they take developmental achievements of human creativity as thinking, and language, and use them in the service of a parasitic relationship. Lies have a special interest for psychoanalysis, because they use verbal language for the communication between patient and analyst about a reality which is not sensorial. Lies imply a parasitic container–contained relationship of mutual destruction. The sadomasochistic erotization of mental pain that tends to accompany the lie also distorts the sense of the analytic work.
