Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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