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This paper takes a two-fold approach to loyalty conflicts: the approach of the manifest reality, which is objectifiable through ways of acting and speaking; and the latent approach, which focuses on underlying psychic issues. This paper shows that loyalty conflicts are as inherent to life as psychic conflict, which is a central notion in Freud’s theory of neurosis. Clinical and legal structures, in their symbolic dimensions, can be used in treating loyalty conflicts and psychic conflicts. This paper is illustrated by clinical cases.