He may carry a light in his brain, but his instincts move in the darkness. Out of that darkness he draws his motives." "Or fails to draw them," said Sir Richmond. "Or fails. And that is where these new methods of treatment come in. We explore that failure. Together. What the psychoanalyst does-and I will confess that I owe much to the psychoanalyst--what he does is to direct thwarted, disappointed and perplexed people to the realities of their own nature. Which they have been accustomed to ignore and forget.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
"These new methods of treatment are based on the idea of imperfection. We begin with that. I began with that last Tuesday. ." Sir Richmond, too, was sticking to his argument. "A man, and for that matter the world he lives in, is a tangle of accumulations. Your psychoanalyst starts, it seems to me, with a notion of stripping down to something fundamental. The ape before was a tangle of accumulations, just as we are. So it was with his forebears.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》