Players: Husband and wife.

Activists: Both.

Setting: Home or hotel.

Aim: Use paradoxical approach to get at couple’s inferiority/superiority feelings.

Game Plan: The couple may take turns being master and slave. If they have a twinship transference, either can go first.

If it is an idealizing transference, the idealizing partner should be the slave first, since that order is closest to their present relationship. The taking of turns at being the slave leads to interesting results.

It may begin after a dinner at a fine restaurant, or in the restaurant of the hotel where they are staying. Upon coming back home, the master sits down on an easy chair and looks at the slave sternly. (In this example I will have the man play master.)

“Come over here.”

“Yes, sir!”

“Kneel down before me.” “Yes, sir!”

“Do you realize that you are nothing and I am everything? Do you realize that you are just a slave and I am your master? Do you?”

“Yes, sir!”

“Do you realize that I know everything and you know nothing? Do you?” “Yes, sir!”

“Without me you would be nothing. Nothing! Do you hear?”

“I hear, sir!”

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