“Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it. They should, because they put it all in beforehand. It's like an Easter Egg hunt.”

The Dean's December (1982), ch. 18, p. 298
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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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