My goal with these posts is to bring to light some of the more  unconscious elements of the tragic story of Casey Anthony and her daughter Caylee~

The last couple of days we have been watching the jail conversations between Casey and her family members. There is much support offered, partly to try and control any breakdown on the part of all of them. Father, George is loving and supportive, Brother Lee is all business, holding it together with activity.Mom, CIndy is there with Dad, keeping it together as best she can...

But when you listen betweent the lines, you hear some important nuances in Casey's responses.When her dad is talking about the resources that have stepped up to help look for Caylee, Casey's response is "...thousands of kids that never get any exposure..."

Her language distances Caylee from the rest of the missing kids. Shespeaks as though it'sthe other kids. Now I realize what Casey meantthe message within the message. but I am talking about the unconscious...

Earlier when her dad makes a plea about finding Casey and bringing in Americas Most Wanted, Casey says nothing about that effort. within seconds the conversation is diverted to something else. Casey's silence is important; it is a moment when reality breaks through to Casey that AMW could find Caylee's body and the story she has spun will collapse.

In the final interview transcript, she is talking with her parents. Casey's frustration breaks through and she exclaims that nobody understans what she is going through. Casey says "I can't backtrack on anything." That's simply put and true. She can't backtrack on  her story, or it's all over for her.

She doesn't ask about Caylee, doesn't express her grief, doesn't seem to have any anxiety about a missing child. This omission is striking. But when we apply Occam's razor, we are forced to admit the most obvious truth: there is no missing child and Casey does know what happened.

Of course, we now know that it is all over anyway. But at that point Casey's psychological spllit was operating. She  really believed she could hold her story together. But her unconscious need for the truth to emerge betrays her, as does her language. Despite her words, her mind is split and ambivalent. It's just how we are built. The mind needs to speak the truth despite the individual's desire.

On the one hand shewants us to believe her account. She wants out of jail, she wants to be believed, liked, and comforted for the loss of her child.

But on the other hand,  a part of her keeps letting clues and omissions quietly tell us that Caylee's gone, (not missing) and that she is the baby who is held captive, treated poorly, not cared about...

She and Caylee are psychologically and unconsciously 1 in this way. 

More to come...