My confusion begins to lift, but still, often, I am depressed and confused until an idea emerges clearly and solidly. The theme of Ego, Hunger, and Aggression must be unacceptable to Freud, for it leads to assimilation. Foreign material becomes a part of the Self and its growth. But assimilation is integration. Psychoanalysis turns out to be a closed, unchanged and unchangeable system, full of explanatariness but missing self-evident understanding.
Psychoanalysis is an illness that pretends to be a cure.
Unsuccessful treatments, from three to over twenty years, far outweigh the scant success. I am less confused. I begin to see. But many problems remain. Reading a Newspaper in South Africa, ca.