From the author: The other day I watched the excellent film "The Devil's Advocate". I offer my opinion on this film. Let's scratch this work a little with the fingernail of psychoanalytic theory. They say that the author's neurosis can be determined by the plot. And I say that there is also the neurosis of the one who is looking for the neurosis of the author. Definitely, this is just my opinion. So I invite you to think critically with me. Interesting finds await us. Continuation of the article. It starts here, here, here and here.... But why did a successful lawyer suddenly get overwhelmed by the sight of a pedophile aroused by a girl? Didn't he remind him of the real father who committed incest with his daughter (Kevin's sister)? Then the whole story in reality looks a little different. Somehow we all feel sad and hopeless. And in this field we can see an ordinary happy family. Father, mother and sister, Kevin. An ordinary American house, a lifetime mortgage and all that... And then, for example, this approach. During the genital stage of psychosexual development (or a little later), Kevin becomes an eyewitness to the incest of his father and his sister. And without that, the relationship with the father is not so simple - an unshared mother, again. And then there’s this. Suppose, from ignorance of the prohibition of such actions or, conversely, “understanding everything” with a very insidious intent to win the competition for his father’s mother, he tells his mother about what he saw. Tricky! So whose son is he, right? But the mother’s reaction turned out to be unpredictably strong and negative. For Kevin it became a psychological trauma. Perhaps the enraged mother gave him a hard time in the heat of the moment. I had to force out the entire chain of events from sin. Then it is not difficult to imagine the fate of the mother. She kicked out or “imprisoned” her husband, protected herself from trauma with religiosity, began to lead a correct life “for the sake of her son,” invested all possible resources to make him successful and continued to gradually influence him even in marriage. And for Kevin, this is all a very favorable development of events. Oedipus was won from his father. And, as you know, the winners are not judged. But then a random (or non-random) coincidence of circumstances and the house of cards of the defenses collapsed. Kevin remembered everything. Kevin doesn’t seem to have a sister in the “real” part of the film. Perhaps he simply does not communicate with her in adulthood. In any case, the fact of its existence and its further fate are unknown. Perhaps she is a daughter from her first marriage and her father, who was kicked out of the family, took her with him. Perhaps she was even killed by her pedophile father, who tried to destroy evidence of his crime out of fear of punishment. What is there a hint-mention in Kevin’s “psychosis” that his ward subsequently did the same thing after his release..._________________________________Little Scheherazade. Continued a little later somewhere here.