ABSTRACT
If the betrayal is to be creative, the betrayed needs support through acknowledgement of the hurt while C. G. Jung picks himself up and takes himself forward with his own interpretation of what has happened. That so many of the stories of betrayal concern brothers suggests that the birth of the next baby is also experienced as a betrayal of the parents’ love. The degree to which people feel betrayed by their marriage partner depends not only on their continued involvement, but also on the covenant and troth, spoken and unspoken, that the couple made and gave in the first place. When attempting to understand people’s behaviour when they feel betrayed, we need to take account of the idealization of the in-love state and the weight of expectation in the conscious and unconscious hopes vested in the partner. In seeking to promote the realization of his human nature, the individual attempts to correct earlier unsatisfactory experiences in later life events.
