Deprivation of Affection and its Consequences: Psychodynamic Analysis from the Movie “We Need to Talk About Kevin”

Resumen

 e way parents interact with their children in uence in the psychic constitution of these and con- sequently focus on how the individual relates with themselves and others. To be a relevant issue for professionals, who work with psychoanalysis, needs to be deepened. e aim of this study is to deepen the movie “We need to talk about Kevin”, focusing on the character Kevin and his childhood, from a psychodynamic understanding. It`s a qualitative research with a case study design. It tells the story of Eva and Franklin that are waiting for a son, Kevin, but he was unplanned. He was a rejected child since the pregnancy, deprived of a ection for the mother and received no limits of his father. In this way, during his childhood he grows into a troubled, hostile and confrontational atmosphere that intensi es since the birth of his sister, Celia. It was observed that Eva was not able to be a ‘good-enough mother’ and Franklin denied the di culty that had to relate to the child, not by imposing limits. us, it`s nec- essary an early psychoanalytic intervention parent-infant at the beginning of his life, where the couple can learn to deal with their di culties and develop a healthy relationship.