Reading a few books by Adam Phillips at the moment…
Psychoanalysis is a story - and a way of telling stories - that makes some people feel better…Psychoanalsysis - as a form of conversation - is worth having only if it makes our lives more interesting, or funnier, or sadder, or more tormented or whatever it is about ourselves that we value and want to promote; and especially if it helps us to find new things about ourselves that we didn’t know we could value. New virtues are surprisingly rare.