Psychoanalysis (n.) is a treatment whereby it is not enough to convince the patient about the unconscious truth of his symptoms. Rather the unconscious itself must be brought to assume this truth.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is, in marxist thought, useful in helping to explain why individuals willingly persist in their enslavement to the ruling ideology, even finding in it a perverse satisfaction.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is not about showing one how to accommodate themself to the demands of social reality, but rather, something that explains how 'reality' constitutes itself in the first place.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a field whose aim is to deprive the subject of the very fundamental fantasy that regulates the universe of his (self) experience.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a field in which what really matters is not the truth value of a patient's statements, but the way the patient's desires are disclosed through alternations of truths and lies.