Jungian theory offers a useful lens through which to focus True Detective’s mythological themes and developmental structure. The dramatis personae of the psychoanalytic concepts themselves reveal meaning in a way that is typically unavailable when encountered as abstracted theory. The story of True Detective focuses on the relation of these stereotypically masculine men to the feminine principle. The normal function of empathy and an appreciation of the subjectivity, the inner life, of the other is seemingly absent. Confession as a psychotherapeutic method was introduced into the psychoanalytic method by Josef Breuer and taken up by Sigmund Freud. Prima facie confession was seen as offering a complete cure in its initial adoption and application by psychoanalysis. The interpretive method introduced by Freud is about uncovering and understanding what has been unsaid in the confession. Repression and resistance often prevail, thwarting a full confession.