2024-03-02 22:02:06
A disappointment in friendship can be an opportunity to question ourselves about our relationship with others. kieferpix / stock.adobe.com
PSYCHO ADVICE – We idealize our friends so much that their betrayals can leave deep wounds within us.
Boulevard theater does not necessarily invite friendly betrayal. Certainly, this can take the form of romantic infidelity. But what we perceive as a betrayal can also be found in negligence, antagonistic points of view or attitudes considered hurtful. Each of us has one day experienced, with a mixture of astonishment and anger, this painful question: « Why did he do this to me ? »
As Jean Maisonneuve, professor of social psychology, writes in Psychology of friendship (PUF), « affinity is based (…) on the meeting of two consonant and usually unconscious imaginations where ideality plays a big role ». Betrayal then appears like a disastrous blow to this absolute. « Friendship is a bit like the ideal relationship that we were unable to experience with our parents or our brothers and sisters, explicit Saverio Tomasella, psychologist and psychoanalyst, author of A thousand beats of wings (Robert…
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