PSYCHOLOGY – Passionate, fusional, harmonious: we are not always aware of the clichés that shape our vision of ideal love.
In Feast, Plato recounts how Zeus split men in two, condemning them to seek their half throughout the world to finally feel “complete”. Firmly anchored in our collective unconscious, this mythology of the “good person” would not only have beneficial effects in our love life.
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For the psychologist Camille Rochet, who has just published The five beliefs that prevent you from being happy as a couple (Larousse, 2022), it represents one of those beliefs that unwittingly influence our vision of the couple and of love. Through our culture, our education, our parental model, we thus develop unconscious biases – or “cognitive distortions” which guide our life choices and our way of seeing reality. “ In spite of yourself, you only point out the examples which tend towards the realization of these prophecies, while obscuring those which invalidate them. explains Camille Rochet, who believes that we are all victims, one day…
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