“How, then, can uncovering [ego beliefs] make them real?”) The idea, then, is that in psychoanalysis, a person’s “real” motives (actually, his ego’s motives) are uncovered, and then he is judged and criticized in the hopes that this will drive out those dark motives. This, says Jesus, is essentially the same as the Inquisition, whose purpose was to uncover the error of heretics and then, often through torture, impel them to confess their sin and do penance, so that their souls could be saved.
