ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses about the film Good Neighbors, which provides thought-provoking entertainment and a chance to reflect upon the powerful underbelly of some narcissistic patients. Some more narcissistic patients are better built psychologically to avoid the breakdown but they are still empty, desperate, and fragile. They do not show their desperation and pleading, but instead seek revenge and focus their rage and entitlement on the analyst, and in the counter-transference people feel like a spittoon or Kleenex that is used and discarded without any remorse. Finally, there are patients operating in a primitive depressive mode, trying to avoid grief and mourning by constantly substituting their fallen objects with the next best thing. Due to various unconscious conflicts and the excessive use of projective identification, all individuals ignore or discard the objects they do or could have, and instead find a substitute that they can control, shape, and use for their immediate and rigidly defined gratification.
