Psychoanalyzing Quotes

“The other prejudice that psychoanalysis leads us to necessarily renounce is, as already mentioned, the notion of the distinction between a deeply hidden and truthful reality, on the one hand, and a deceptive appearance, a directly accessible surface, on the other. To be sure, the didactic opposition between manifest and latent content allows for a limited interpretation, thereby sustaining this prejudice. Yet, notice how in the course of our reading one and the same term turns out in fact, upon analysis, to support the truth and its veiling.”
― Serge Leclaire, Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter