When the fraternal prevails over the Oedipal. A possible interpretative model for modern couples

It is more and more evident how right in the unconscious partner choice and in the development of the couple relation, the importance and sometimes the centrality of what we might define a sort of transference on the couple, characterized by some archaic and undifferentiated aspects of the fraternal complex, may emerge, as the analysis of both theoretical and clinical literature on the specific subject shows. Our aim is to answer to the question related to the infiltration of the fraternal into some couples’ psychic dynamics, which seem to characterize today’s clinical scene. By the light of what said above, the author propose a reflection upon something which may be defined as a fraternisation of the couple’s link through the presentation of a clinical case related to a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy leaded in co-therapy, and basing on the most recent contributions about the fraternal in psychoanalysis.