ABSTRACT
In the domains of psychotherapy and psychiatry, as well as in other practical affairs, it is often not possible to make anything more than just informed guesses on the causes of phenomena. Psychoanalytic journals follow more or less strictly the principles of scientific publishing. However, they have often become formed in the scope of specific school of psychoanalysis, and their more or less explicit goal is to promote founders’ views. Psychoanalytic folks believe that there are interesting and significant connections between jokes, values, defences, sexual desires, psychic problems, early experiences, and art, among others. If this kind of matter cannot be shown and described by using terminology that is understandable and acceptable for outsiders, one begins to wonder whether the emperor has clothes. Like clothes hickory golfers, psychoanalysis has been very interested in its own tradition, and strickingly uninterested in the development taking place around it.
