ABSTRACT
When Annie went to her psychoanalyst, she was a lonely child. Being lonely affected her well-being. And yet the analyst did not ask her about her loneliness. Instead, they talked about how she was afraid of her sexuality, how she avoided blood because it reminded her of an erect penis, how she was afraid of her father because she unconsciously coveted him. Over time, Annie became so depressed that she began to believe everything her psychoanalyst had said. From viewing the world as an object for our risk management, people gradually come to view themselves as an object for risk management. This happened around the time of the birth of psychology in particular. Based on early psychoanalysis, we see how both patients and therapists begin to see themselves as alien powder kegs, dangerous to both themselves and others – albeit “unconsciously.” As in the case of Thomas Quick, who produced “repressed memories” and was convicted of eight murders – for which he was later acquitted. It may seem like an accident, but the idea that someone would so fundamentally question their own experience is not, historically speaking, a coincidence. It stems from an idea about the hidden self that first began to gain cultural traction in the nineteenth century.
