GAMES FOR DEPRESSED COUPLES – GAME 5: SEXUAL BATTLE (PART 1)
Players: Husband and wife. Activists: Both. Setting: Bed.
Aim: Activate unconscious feelings of competition or resentment and direct them into a constructive channel.
Game Plan: Sometimes depression is involved with both feelings of oppression and an inhibition of self-assertion and competition. We learn as children that it is not all right to assert ourselves toward or compete with our brothers, sisters, or parents, for we will then meet with disapproval, condemnation, and the like. Hence the habit of allowing ourselves to be oppressed gets started.
In this game, a couple is asked to turn sex into a competitive sport (which at first seems opposed to everything that sex represents—i.e., the saying that was prevalent during the 1960s, “Make love, not war”). However, in this instance the competition, combined with eroticism, is being utilized to get at a particular kind of block related to a deep-seated fear of assertion.
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