In my experience, psychoanalysis demanded loyalty that could not be questioned, the blind acceptance of unexamined wisdom. It is characteristic of religious orders to seek obedience without scepticism, but it spells the death of intellectual enquiry. All variants of because I say so, or because the Koran says so, or the Bible says so, or the Upanishads say so, or Freud says so, or Marx says so, are simply different means of stifling intellectual dissent. In the end they cannot satisfy the inquisitive mind or still the doubts that naturally arise when such a mind is confronted with authoritative statements about human behavior.
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson was a contemporary American author. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is an American author. Masson is best known for his conclusions about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Read more on Wikipedia →