ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author discusses the hate of psychoanalysis from three perspectives: why the science itself evoked such estrangement and hostility; how its practitioners added to this hate; and how its patients and their families might contribute to feelings of "down with psychoanalysis." The major one is why psychoanalysis, the science itself, evokes such estrangement and hostility. The author focuses on how psychoanalysts, the practitioners, add to this, and a few words on the psychoanalyzed patient and his contribution to the feeling of "down with psychoanalysis." The human baby, said psychoanalysis has an innate tendency to overcome all obstacles to its pleasure and to destroy all things which bring it pain or frustration. Many patients and analysts expect more from psychoanalysis than it can give. Most people are so bogged down in their rut and so afraid to change, they unconsciously hate and envy the improvement of the patient who dares to undertake psychoanalytic treatment.