The Appeal Of Psychoanalysis

This paper gathers remarks made by Freud which differentiate the practice of psychoanalysis from psychotherapy. It will also draw from Lacan’s Seminar 24, L’insu qui sait de l’une bévue, s’aile à mourre, for its consideration of the concept of the unconscious in 1976. First of all I would like to thank Ros McCarthy[2] for her words of introduction, which are generously brief. The truth is much more problematic in light of the topic of today’s study-day.…