Begin of publication “Psychoanalysis reveals the dirt and brings to the purity of self-talk” So to this day, despite the fact that more than 100 years have passed, the subject is still trying to seem better than he is . I will give a specific example in the next article. A person thinks of himself in socially approved categories, and psi practitioners take advantage of this. That is why concepts from some psychological directions are like a balm for the soul since a person thinks of himself in socially approved categories “I am responsible” “I am overprotective” “I often take the main role in relationships” “I feel guilty” “I take everything so seriously that I cannot trust the matter to another person”, for example, my partner - “what if something turns out wrong.” At the moment of such reflections - free associations - the pronunciation is triggered (or the general meaning of the speech allows the psychoanalyst to build an interpretation). It may turn out that behind the remarks “I take everything seriously, and if they give me the wrong gift, I can get angry and upset, I I may feel uneasy when they don’t do it the way I like,” in fact, there is a desire to dominate, to subordinate the will of another, that is, to come through another person to the result that you want. Agree, not the most pleasant discovery. The role of psychoanalysis in recognizing the unsightly. Here it is important to remember that the task of a psychoanalyst is not to expose the subject to something, but to follow meanings that are not discovered, but which exist, to bring them to the surface. Psychoanalysis does not seek to repeat, reflect feelings, thoughts, as in other approaches. It helps to give voice to what does not sound. This is often followed by recognition from the subject himself - “yes, yes, that’s true, I really want to take a leading position” - and further reflection on this topic. Of course, such recognition is only a step towards the next session, and not the end of the analysis. Interpretation of Jacques Lacan's words about the unconscious In conclusion, I will say that such an opening of the unsightly is the path to the fundamental problem of the unconscious. The well-known Jacques Lacan, for example, wrote about the incision that the analyst makes. His thoughts can be interpreted in different ways, but in any case they are easily correlated with our topic. It is with the help of psychoanalysis that one can make an incision, that is, reveal something that a person probably knows about himself, but which he cannot admit - due to various, including social (hello Freud) life circumstances. And it is precisely this something that we can try to designate as that very unconscious that everyone has heard about, which everyone has tried, is trying and will try to explain. I hope that such a dirty topic will not frighten you on the way to yourself - believe me, this does not mean that you need to be afraid of psychoanalysis - perhaps everyone who has been deep in analysis for a long time has encountered a similar experience of revealing the unflattering within themselves and knows about the accompanying relief from recognition .Original: here Source: audio podcast "The Practice of Psychoanalysis""