The Sopranos (TV Series)

Mergers and Acquisitions (2002)

Lorraine Bracco: Dr. Jennifer Melfi

Quotes 

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Maybe you're feeling guilty

  Tony Soprano : I don't see that. Why would I?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Because his a friend of yours and you're cuckolding him

  Tony Soprano : [Remains silent, confused] 

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Cuckolding is when a man has an affair with another's wife

  Tony Soprano : She's not his wife anyway, she's his comare

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : And therefore has no status anyway

  Tony Soprano : Comare's has status. I mean it's not like in the old days when a man had a wife and then sort of a second wife. It used to be they'd take their wives out Fridays and comares on Saturdays or maybe it's the other way around? Anyway when I came up, it wasn't so formal. A business associate of mine has two full families. One up here, one down in Sea Girt, and the second wife bust his balls just as much as the first.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Sounds like a complicated arrangement. I'm afraid our time's up

  Tony Soprano : Just give me another minute

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I have a patient waiting

  Tony Soprano : Then let him wait, you make me wait out there all the time. I just want to ask if it's possible for a man to go out with a woman without really "doing anything" with them?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : You'll have to be more specific

  Tony Soprano : He likes them to hurt him, and that's it and he goes and "take care" of himself. His own needs.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : He sounds like a textbook masochist

  Tony Soprano : You mean like S&M?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : The M part yes

  Tony Soprano : I thought that stuff was just a run up to the act?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : That's the case for many people but not for people with paraphilias for them seeing humiliated becomes in of itself the sexual release like many other things it's rooted in childhood