"There is a strong motive for letting Freud go and declaring psychoanalysis dead, and that motive speaks directly to the abandonment of our inner most urges toward satisfaction, an exhaustion of utopia."
You go, Ken! Also, there is a huge pharmacological industry that has every interest in replacing a therapist with pills.
"Psychoanalysis is a struggle towards enlightenment. Psychoanalysis recommends that things could be different, even if it is unsure of its results."
It can be. It can also be a tool of enslavement. It is the people who practice it who decide.
Joanna