Our Last Great Illusion Quotes

“[A]nalysis can easily become [...] the autoerotism of therapy, implying an essentially circular pleasure, self-centered, a self-caress which includes the other, indeed welcomes the other, providing the other is really the same.”
― Rob Weatherill, Our Last Great Illusion: A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture

“Essence, identity is ironical and a cover for anxiety about Being. Identity is a de-facing of the face, like an old building covered over by graffiti. Therapists are those well meaning souls that supply the 'children' with the spray cans to destroy the old doors and walls, etc.”
― Rob Weatherill, Our Last Great Illusion: A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture

“Therapy demands that we all become little children and be gratified and healed. What it didn't bargain for was a new lethal and incurable form of childhood - the new infantilism - screaming for needs to be heard and respected.”
― Rob Weatherill, Our Last Great Illusion: A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture