interesting point

I agree with you, if I understand your point.

In my opinion, the Freudians promoted an idea that is essentially accurate, very important, and previously was largely ignored: we don't know ourselves. When we look at ourselves, we get a very superficial analysis of motives in simplistic terms. There is more going on under the surface.

I think where they went most wrong was the form of their grand mythology about what lies under the surface. Freud and Jung both relegated control of our lives to the equivalent of gods and destiny (and in Freud's case, sex and death) and promoted a passive view of the human being. The Unconscious just becomes another thing to hide behind in some ways. As James Hillman once pointed out, psychoanalysis became a kind of salvational ideology in order to overcome the gods and destiny inhabiting the unconscious.

We surely need to recognize the limits of the rational ego in comprehending ourselves, but giving our control over to an "unconscious" of infinite power and predetermination is little improvement if any.

kind regards,

Todd

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