On psychoanalysis

Freud did diagnose Dora as a hysteric, so you can be assured that diagnoses and psychoanalysis go together, at least if Freud is anything to go by.

The internal logic of psychoanalysis is the more you resist a diagnoses — and we have established that diganoses are in fact made — the more that diagnosis is likely to be true.

If I say “I don’t like psychoanalysis” it means I desperately need psychoanalysis. If I say, “patriarchal ideology is oppressive” it means I am oppressing people for stating this.

Do I need to enter a situation where this logic would be imposed on me in order to prove to you that I understand what I am talking about?

Actually, if I entered such a situation, I would certainly never be able to prove anything at all, because the logic I have described would silence me.