ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is primarily about somehow moving forward psychically through pain, or in spite of it. Psychoanalysis is a practice rather than the study of books. It takes courage; it requires the endurance of psychic pain in the attempt to break free of defensive subjugations. According to Ferro, psychoanalysis moves from being a psychology of contents, conflicts, or deficiencies to being “a psychoanalysis of experiences/instruments that foster the very development of the possibility/capacity to think”. Psychoanalysis is one of the attempts to co-operate in the metabolism of archaic emotions that paralyse the mind. Brain imaging technology enables to actually see the teenage brain in sufficient detail. Vulnerability is the acceptance of more and more elements to process. Painless sanity, as an ultimate superficial quality of life, is a caricature of mental life.
