Far from contesting the usefulness of these substances and disregarding the comfort they bring, I have wanted to show that they are unable to cure people of their psychical sufferings, whether these be normal or pathological. Death, the passions, sexuality, madness, the unconscious, the relation to another: it is these that mold the subjectivity of each person, and no science worthy of the name will ever exhaust the matter, fortunately.

Psychoanalysis...in the future should occupy its full place, next to the other sciences, to contest the obscurantist claims seeking to reduce thought to a neuron or to equate desire with a chemical secretion.

Elisabeth Roudinesco
Why Psychoanalysis?
(Porquoi la psychanalyse?)

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us--
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the meanings are.

Emily Dickinson

A new cerebral mythology established itself with the aim of demonstrating that psychoanalysis was not a science but a method of literary introspection or a variant of the ancient key to dreams. This mythology took the name cognitive unconscious.... The primary objective of this cognitive psychology was to contest first behaviorism, but above all psychoanalysis, considered as a real plague.

Elisabeth Roudinesco
Why Psychoanalysis?

[Elisabeth Roudinesco] fiercely defends Freud against "fanatical" opponents.... Unfortunately, though Roudinesco wants psychoanalysis to be a science, she often waxes polemical when a clear, objective evaluation of Freud is needed. For that, a general audience will be better served by Elio Frattaroli's Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain.

Library Journal
Review of Why Psychoanalysis?

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Tom Brokaw

The worst of the American way is their so-called broadmindedness through which they even feel themselves to be superior to us narrowminded Europeans.

Sigmund Freud