Spelunking the caverns of your own subterranean desires, dreams, and motivations, rendering them conscious, and thereby, maybe, making them comprehensible is very difficult. Psychoanalysis and other inference methods are imperfect; they create a new fiction, a different narrative based on intuitive, folk-psychological notions about why people do the things they do. The talking cure may never unearth the actual reasons why a relationship broke asunder: These remain consigned to the dark cellars of the brain, where consciousness does not cast its prying light.
