O'Shaughnessy E
Int J Psychoanal. 1990;71 ( Pt 2):187-95.
At first glance a liar is an inauspicious patient for a psychoanalysis, a treatment based on truthfulness. Because it presents in speech, lying may seem a mature difficulty, but analysis reveals that it is primitive, linked to the habitual liar's doubts and anxieties about communication with primary objects which, from several causes, have become for him lying objects. As expected, lying makes for a series of problems which handicap the analytic process. Even so, the paper illustrates clinically the view that if the fundamental level of the lying that emerges in the analysis is addressed by understanding it as the liar's communication that he is a liar in identification with, and acutely anxious about, his lying object--in the transference the analyst--a genuine analytic process can be set in train.
乍一看，说谎者对于精神分析而言并非理想的患者，因为精神分析这种治疗方法是基于坦诚的。由于说谎表现在言语中，它可能看似是一种较为成熟的困难，但分析表明，它是原始的，与惯于说谎者对与主要客体交流的怀疑和焦虑相关，由于多种原因，这些主要客体对他而言已成为说谎的客体。不出所料，说谎引发了一系列阻碍分析过程的问题。即便如此，本文通过临床案例说明了这样一种观点：如果将分析中出现的说谎的基本层面理解为说谎者在认同其说谎客体（在移情中即分析师）并对之深感焦虑的情况下进行的自我表述，即他自己是个说谎者，那么就可以启动真正的分析过程。
