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Psychoanalysis can certainly do much, in theory. But you've got to be sharp, really sharp, to be able to pick yourself out for doing that which, by going unnoticed, defines the limits of your character. I actually don't think any psychoanalyst,in a thousand years, would have enabled me to understand the core aspect of my character that was giving me trouble -- which was that I habitually projected the better parts of myself into esteemed others. Once I realized that this is what I was doing, I was cured. However, most people I spoke to, which was anyone who was willing to guess, made assumptions based on personal weakness or malignancy -- in any case, ideas entirely unrelated to anything I was doing.
Psychoanalysis can certainly do much, in theory. But you've got to be sharp, really sharp, to be able to pick yourself out for doing that which, by going unnoticed, defines the limits of your character. I actually don't think any psychoanalyst,in a thousand years, would have enabled me to understand the core aspect of my character that was giving me trouble -- which was that I habitually projected the better parts of myself into esteemed others. Once I realized that this is what I was doing, I was cured. However, most people I spoke to, which was anyone who was willing to guess, made assumptions based on personal weakness or malignancy -- in any case, ideas entirely unrelated to anything I was doing.
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